Don’t miss our first quarterly lecture this year, Inside the Vault: Fabulous French Fashion. We’ll flutter through the pages of historical French fashion, as seen in our rare costume books from the 18th century to the present.

1. Insidethe Vault:
Fabulous French Fashion

2. E.D. Rue de la Paix 17, c. 1880 Le Trianon de Marie-Antoinette,
c.1914

3. E.D. Rue de
la Paix 17
c. 1880

4. Detail of Louis XIV of France by Hyacinthe Rigaud, c.1701, Louvre Museum.

5. Portrait of Madame de Conti as Venu
by Noel Nicolas Coypel, c. 1731.
The Ringling Museum.

7. Engravings from Galerie des Modes, 1778-1787. Reproduced in print by The Metropolitan Museum

8. Bonnet a la Victoire….or Pouf!
Comment Discerner les Styles du VIIIe au XIXe
Siècle
by Leon Roger-Milés, c.1899.

9. Self-portrait
by Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun,
c. 1781. Kimball Art Museum.
Marie-Antoinette in Her Court Robe
by Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, c. 1779.
Réunion des Musées Nationaux.

10. Marie Antoinette, Queen of
France,
after a copy by Elisabeth Louise
Vigée-Le Brun, c.1788.
The Ringling Museum.

11. Duchess de Polignac
by Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun.
c. 1783. The Waddesdon Manor.

12. The Glove Department at Au Bon Marché, from L’Illustration, August 10, 1889.
Courtesy of the Newberry Library, Chicago.

13. Costumes Parisiens, c.1835

14. Costumes
Parisiens
c.1835

15. Parisian summer
promenade dresses. Plate
from the book Costumes
Parisiens
written in 1835.

16. Costumes
Parisiens
c. 1835

17. Ackermann’s Repository
of Arts, Literature, &
Fashion
by Rudolph Ackermann
c.1830

18. Ackermann’s
Repository of Arts,
Literature, & Fashion
by Rudolph Ackermann
c.1830

20. Comment Discerner les Styles du VIIIe au XIXe Siècle
by Leon Roger-Milés
c.1899.

21. Comment
Discerner les
Styles du VIIIe au
XIXe Siècle
by Leon Roger-Milés
c.1899.

22. Detail of L’Histoire du Costume Feminin, c.
1922

24. Un Ministre des Modes sous Louis XVI, Mademoiselle
Bertin: Marchande de Modes de la Reine, 1747-1813
by Pierre de Nouvion c.1911

25. Un Ministre des Modes sous Louis XVI, c.1911

26. Modes et Costumes Historiques by Hippolyte Louis Emile Pauquet, c. 1870

27. The Ringling Art Library

28. Thank You!