Mid-19th Century Evening Dresses and Gowns

Circa 1845-1850 France Day dress in wine coloured silk pongee taffeta, aubergine dating from the late Romantic period. This dress has been washed and dyed bordeau probably for a seco...

Circa 1860 Spain Spanish festive costume composed of a brocaded silk moire crinoline dress, a black velvet mantilla embroidered with jet pearls and a cream ...

Circa 1835-1840 France Romantic period dress in pale pink Florence taffeta dating from the reign of Louis-Philippe. Dress lined with cream cotton, with a separate bodice effect, poi...

Circa 1855/1858 France or Europe Beautiful day dress with large crinoline dating from the beginning of the Second Empire period. Cream silk taffeta with purple stripes, speckled in leopard-style Chiné silk, inspired by Louis XVI French Fashion. One-part dress with stapled front bodice, crew neck and angled sleeves. Beautiful musketeer finery in Chantilly lace and jet pearl...

Circa 1865 France Afternoon or walking summer day dress with a large crinoline shape and its matching mantelet in printed cotton, a set so well represented and depicted in the garden scenes of the Impressionist painting. Dress open in front and matching buttons, bodice with a crew neck and large pagoda sleeves. Wide skirt finely pleated and sewn to the waist belt. Small cape or mantelet covering the shoulders. A striped woven and twill white cotton fabric called in french Jaconas (?). Cotton roller-printing of an aubergine and black geometric small motifs pattern. Large trimmings sewn on the edges of a matched printed cotton with small flowers and stripes. Matching button trim on the front (two altered buttons). Exhibited and catalogued at Villa Rosemaine...

Circa 1900 for the Cut Circa 1820/1850 for the fabric India for Fashion in the West Amazing kaftan dress made in a Palempore from the Indies in Painted cotton Chintz. Beautiful tree of life with intact colors and made according to the know-how of craftsmen from the Coromandel Coast: Printing on fine cotton by mordanting, dyeing in wax reserve for indigo blue, pinching yellow and superimposing with blue to obtain green. All the outlines of the drawings are made with a brush called a calame, literally explaining the name of painted cotton toile. The decor initially produced in India for the Persian market presents a stylized cypress tree of life, floral and vegetal decor, but above all animal fauna, birds of paradise, Asian tigers...

Circa 1850/1860 Provence Beautiful dress of Provencal bourgeoisie in fashion of Paris in silk pongé printed in the eighteenth century taste. Silk background printed with a wooden plank with river decoration of flowered branches. Broken stick graphic with dominant yellow, black, pink, blue and green (obtained by superposition of yellow and blue). Dress in two parts, boned bodice with two whalebone, pagoda sleeves with punctured wrists, highlighted by falbalas with double ribbons of silk shaped pleated. Basques bodice open front and held by three ribbons revealing a piece of stomach or modesty in lace. Round skirt with hollow pleats and back staple on cotton belt. Bodice lined with cream glazed cotton and cotton gauze skirt...

Circa 1830 France Louis-Philippe Period Printed roller walking or afternoon cotton day dress with a pattern of small light brown ribbed leaves. Very fitted bodice with a crew neck and oversized mutton sleeves, finely pleated and piped at the shoulders and wrists tightened with four buttons. Wide waist belt hugging the bottom of the chest and large round skirt finely pleated at the waist. No default. Dress exhibited in Villa Rosemaine...

Circa 1862/1865 France Mourning crinoline dress (bodice and skirt) in flowery damask silk faille dating from the end of the Second French Empire. Bodice and adjoining skirt in satin...

Circa 1850 England A crinoline ball-gown in a rich deep blue façonné striped silk, adorned with brocaded tobacco and copper flowered stems. Whalebone bodice is assembled to the skir...