Genre Gallery

Chinese-style wall hanging, circa 1900

Chinese-style wall hanging, circa 1900. Gilt pelmet, damask valance, satin curtains with gold and silver decoration, embroidered silk wall decorations. Planche 3. Croisee Genre Chinois. Galerie bois dore, cantonniere petit damas, avec contre-fond velours, galons or et argent. Rideaux de dessous lampas fantaisie, franges or et argent. Decoration murale satin brode ou peinture sur soie. Chromolithograph by Henry Sicard et A. Farradesche after an illustration by Ernest Foussier from his Nouveaux Mod??les de Tentures, Decorations de FenǦtres, New Models of Wall Hangings, Window Decorations, E. Thezard Fils, Librairie Speciale d'Architecture, Dourdan, France, 1900. Foussier (1859-1917) was a French architect and interior decorator who worked in Paris

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A meeting at a masquerade ball

A meeting at a ball: A masked woman and Normandy girl flirt with a revolutionary man in bicorn and cockade, while a woman in drag as a Turkish man interrupts and a double bass player looks on. I know you, but you'd don't know me, in other words I have many ways to put you on the spot, to play with you, and have fun at your expense, while you cannot take revenge, or see my faults or weaknesses. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. A meeting at a ball: A masked woman and Normandy girl flirt with a revolutionary man in bicorn and cockade, while a woman in drag as a Turkish man interrupts and a double bass player looks on. I know you, but you'd don't know me, in other words I have many ways to put you on the spot, to play with you, and have fun at your expense, while you cannot take revenge, or see my faults or weaknesses. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. Date:

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Visitors in Pelisses

Guests at a fashionable salon, all wearing extravagent fur-lined clothes, jackets, dresses and pelisses. By the early 19th century, fur lined and trimmed cloaks, coats and jackets were all the rage. Once, or rather in the past, we saw only bare shoulders and arms. Today, decked out in witzchouras (fur cloaks) and fur caps, ladies show barely the tips of their noses. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. Guests at a fashionable salon, all wearing extravagent fur-lined clothes, jackets, dresses and pelisses. By the early 19th century, fur lined and trimmed cloaks, coats and jackets were all the rage. Once, or rather in the past, we saw only bare shoulders and arms. Today, decked out in witzchouras (fur cloaks) and fur caps, ladies show barely the tips of their noses. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans