1876 – James Tissot, Summer
In Tissot’s Summer, a woman stands in front of a room inviting someone in, or perhaps leaving. She wears a sheer muslin dress trimmed with yellow bows, which was considered fashionable for the time....
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This painting by a young female artist was probably done of one of her friends in their painting studio and features a woman dressed in fashionable neoclassical simplicity.
View Article1787 – Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Madame Adélaïde
A complex portrait of Louis XV's daughter Marie-Adélaïde clinging to the old regime of France through fashion and decor just before the revolution.
View Article1906 – John White Alexander, Study in Black and Green
Alexander replicated this same evening gown in paintings over a six-year period as it slowly progressed from fashionable to outdated.
View Article1905 – André Derain, Lucien Gilbert
André Derain painted his old friend Lucien Gilbert in the wild, eccentric colors and style of Fauvism. The colors may be unconventional; the sitter is not. Derain presents Gilbert, a future architect,...
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