Appendix I: Fashion Plates

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Appendix I: Fashion Plates

Gloria Groom (Editor)

Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity

~This is a representative selection of fashion plates from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Although fashion plates first circulated at the end of the eighteenth century in England and France, they were most popular from c. 1850 to 1900, when fashion photography replaced them. Usually set into fashion magazines, they provided...

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Appendix I: Fashion Plates

This is a representative selection of fashion plates from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Although fashion plates first circulated at the end of the eighteenth century in England and France, they were most popular from c. 1850 to 1900, when fashion photography replaced them. Usually set into fashion magazines, they provided consumers throughout Europe access to the latest (usually French) styles in clothing, accessories, and hair. Artists also referred to them for trends in fabrics and silhouettes. Characteristically, fashion plates showed vignettes of the bourgeoisie engaged in various activities, clad in appropriate clothing. Many fashion plates carried captions describing the fashions depicted, along with the names and addresses of the dressmakers, boutiques, or department stores where they could be obtained.

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Description: Two Women Wearing Coats by Monnin;Imprimerie Moine;unknown artist

1. Monnin (French, active 19th century), Imprimerie Moine (French, active 19th century), and an unknown artist (French, active 19th century), “Two Women Wearing Coats,” 1863–64. Steel engraving with hand coloring; sheet: 34.8 × 25.6 cm (13 11⁄16 × 10 1⁄16 in.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, gift of Mrs. H. J. Bernheim, 1958, 58.646.20

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Description: Five Women in Day and Evening Dresses around a Piano, from The New Song, Les Modes...

2. Illman Brothers Engr. (American, active 19th century), “Five Women in Day and Evening Dresses around a Piano, from ‘The New Song,’ Les Modes Parisiennes,” Peterson’s Magazine, September 1876. Steel engraving with hand coloring; sheet: 22 × 28.8 cm (8 ⅝ × 11 ⅜ in.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Irene Lewisohn Reference Library, Woodman Thompson Collection, FP.33.1876

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Description: Two Women in Day Dresses with a Young Girl by Unknown

3. Unknown artist (French, active 19th century), “Two Women in Day Dresses with a Young Girl,” Modes de Paris: Journal des Demoiselles et Petit Courrier des Dames Réunis, 1873. Steel engraving with hand coloring; sheet: 22.5 × 17.8 cm (8 ⅞ × 7 in.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Irene Lewisohn Reference Library, Woodman Thompson Collection, FP.32.1873

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Description: Woman Looking Through a Telescope, with a Man and a Dog by Préval, Emile

4. Émile Préval (French, active 19th century), “Woman Looking through a Telescope, with a Man and a Dog,” Les Modes Parisiennes, 1863. Steel engraving with hand coloring; sheet: 27 × 20 cm (10 ½ × 7 ¾ in.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Irene Lewisohn Reference Library, Woodman Thompson Collection, FP.1.1863

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Description: Six Women at the Beach from Les Modes Parisiennes by Illman Brothers

5. Illman Brothers Engr. (American, active 19th century), “Six Women at the Beach from Les Modes Parisiennes,” Peterson’s Magazine, August 1870. Steel engraving with hand coloring; sheet: 19 × 26.5 cm (7 ⅜ × 10 ½ in.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Irene Lewisohn Reference Library, Woodman Thompson Collection, FP.25.1870

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Description: Seven Men and a Woman in Day Dress and Outerwear by Gilquin et Dupain Imprimerie

6. Gilquin et Dupain Imprimerie (French, active 19th century), “Seven Men and a Woman in Day Dress and Outerwear,” Modes Européennes, Organe de l’Académie Universelle des Tailleurs, September 1861. Steel engraving with hand coloring; sheet: 37.7 × 53 cm (14 ⅞ × 21 in.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Irene Lewisohn Reference Library, Woodman Thompson Collection, FP.51.1861

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Description: Two Women in a Garden by Unknown

7. Unknown artist (French, active 19th century), “Two Women in a Garden,” La Mode Illustrée, 1865. Steel engraving with hand coloring; sheet: 30.4 × 22.8 cm (12 × 9 in.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Irene Lewisohn Reference Library, Woodman Thompson Collection, FP 15.1865

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Description: Two Women in Evening Dresses by Colin, Adèle-Anaïs

8. Anaïs Toudouze (French, 1822–1899), “Two Women in Evening Dresses,” La Mode Illustrée, 1877. Steel engraving with hand coloring; sheet: 26.8 × 19.2 cm (10 ½ × 7 ⅝ in.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Irene Lewisohn Reference Library, Woodman Thompson Collection, FP.35.1877

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Description: Le Coquet by Editeur, Albert;Imprimerie Leroy, and Laure Noël

9. Albert Éditeur, Imprimerie Leroy, and Laure Noël (French, 1827–1878), “Le Coquet” Journal des Modes Spécial pour Couturières, July 1, 1869. Steel engraving with hand coloring; sheet: 28.1 × 39.6 cm (11 1⁄16 × 15 9⁄16 in.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, gift of Mrs. H. J. Bernheim, 1958, 58.646.18

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