Figure of a Woman

Corset and crinoline makers, for example, fashioned the latest silhouettes, which were featured in the outfits invented by dessinateurs industriels. In turn, these designers proposed their sketches to ready-to-wear manufacturers and dressmakers, and supplied ideas to major trendsetters like those at the specialized counters of department stores. Fashion illustrators and artists also took up...

~Even after a number of Salon refusals in the second half of the 1870s, Manet still declined to participate in the Impressionist exhibitions. Instead, he looked to other arrangements, among them throwing his own studio...