Love the dress, love the tableau even more!
1790’s suit made of red cloth with metal buttons. Said to have belonged to a middle-class man in a small Swedish town.
Madame de Courcelles by Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu with her son, Edward Wortley Montagu and Attendent - Attributed to Jean Baptiste Vanmour, c.1717
Finally reading Edward Said’s Orientalism. Relevant portrayal of the East is relevant.
(via 18thcenturylove)
Detail of a lovely sleeve
Chintz Caraco & Petticoat
cotton from south-east India, sewn in England
c.1770-80
Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d’Éon de Beaumont (5 October 1728 – 21 May 1810), usually known as the Chevalier d’Éon, was a French diplomat, spy, soldier and Freemason who lived the first half of his life as a man and the second half as a woman.
When Casanova heard about this man, he couldn’t believe he was a “he.” He thought the King of France, Louis XV would never have a transvestite work for him and was convinced D’eon had to be a woman. XD
“For the King alone knew and had always known that the chevalier was a woman, and all the long discussions which the false chevalier had with the office for foreign affairs was a comedy which the King allowed to go on, only because it amused him.”
My poor Casanova, your “lady radar” seems to be malfunctioning.
White atlas silk dress worn by Maria Chatarina Röhl, née Brandelius, the day after her wedding. Trimmed with green ribbons.
