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Description: The Age of Undress: Art, Fashion, and the Classical Ideal in the 1790s
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In the 1790s, elite women appeared in the metropolitan ballrooms, gardens, and opera boxes of Europe and the United States dressed as living statues...
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NEOCLASSICAL DRESS is modern and formalist: its approach to the body is to swathe it in a thin textile that both constructs and reveals the form beneath...
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In 1807, Germaine de Staël published her novel of female artistic ambition, Corinne; or, Italy...
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NEOCLASSICAL DRESS is transparent. The finest neoclassical dresses were made from Indian muslin woven from hand-spun yarns of a gossamer thinness...
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~In Marie-Denise Villers’s portrait of Charlotte du Val d’Ognes (fig. 56), the young artist sits at work in front of a cracked window.Higgonet 2016 demonstrates that the setting is a studio in the Louvre, making this an assertive and confident...
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PERHAPS THE DEFINING characteristic of neoclassical dress is its distinctive, high-waisted silhouette...
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In the spring of 1793, a strange fad swept London: women began to wear belly pads under their dresses...
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NEOCLASSICAL DRESS wasn’t always white. Sometimes women wore dyed muslin tunics over their white chemises, or chose textiles embroidered with colored threads and spangles or printed with small figures made in a new industrial roller-printing process...
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A charming miniature attributed to Jean-Antoine Laurent, dated ca. 1795...
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NEOCLASSICAL DRESS startled onlookers with its nakedness. Especially in the late 1790s and especially in Paris...
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~In 1796, Jean-Louis Laneuville exhibited a prison portrait of Thérésa Tallien (fig. 145). It appeared in the second post-Thermidor Salon, reminding viewers of the...
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In 1819, as the fashionableness of neoclassical dress neared the end of its arc, a waggish pamphlet called Dress and Address looked back at the style that had dominated the previous 25 years...
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