Wedding dress ca. 1742-43
From the Manchester Art Gallery
François Boucher | La toilette intime
AN OPEN ROBE AND PETTICOAT, 1760S
of pink silk brocaded with a rambling green vine, trimmed with fly braid on open robe and petticoats (2)Sold for £14,900
Venus asking Vulcan weapons for Aeneas
Boucher François (1703-1770)
1732
oil on canvas
Paris, musée du Louvre
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The two sisters by Jean Baptiste Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non (what a name!)
c. 1770
The Met says: “Two Sisters” reproduces an oil painting by Fragonard (53.61.5), which by chance is also in the Metropolitan Museum, as it looked before it was cut down to about half its original size. The pastel is signed and dated 1770, the approximate date of the painting. The identity of the sitters is not known. Typically, the girls are dressed as adults, in contemporary costumes. The doll, a Polichinelle, takes the form of a clown with a mask and a bicorne hat. Saint-Non’s children are prettier and more conventional in appearance than Fragonard’s; he eschews the brilliant yellow that Fragonard used for the younger girl’s dress. The drawing, especially of the hands and arms, is weak but the pastel is rare and has enormous charm.
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Robe volante ca. 1735
From the Musée Galliera
