#empire style

[empirearchives]

Y’all look at this set of Napoleonic playing cards I found by Philipp Otto Runge, early 19th century.

They depict figures from the Napoleonic era including famous military figures and women wearing really pretty empire style.

The first one is supposed to be Murat.

Source: Hamburger Kunsthalle

#Philipp Otto Runge #napoleonic era #19th century #card #playing cards #deck of cards #card deck #cards #illustration #art #drawing #empire style #french empire #first french empire #german art #german #Germany #France #empire #19th century art #Napoleonic #artifact #artifacts #pretty #fashion #history of fashion #fashion history #historical fashion #military uniform #Murat

[jeannepompadour]

Miniature portrait of Maria Antonia of Naples, Princess of Asturias, c. 1800-1806

#1800s #miniature #archduchess #19th century #mdp19th c. #empire style

[printsandplates]

A gentleman and a lady in an empire style dress (fashion plate), 1804, Napoleonic era

Jan Antony Langendijk

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

#Jan Antony Langendijk #Langendijk #napoleonic #napoleonic wars #napoleonic era #empire style #fashion history #fashion plate #fashion #history of fashion #regency #regency fashion

[designobjectory]

Russian Neo Classic Bronze Gueridon

An unusual Russin Neo-Classic style bronze Gueridon with an ormolu pierced bronze gallery, a transparent cobalt glass circular table top, with a patented bronze scrolling legs centered by an ormolu bronze acanthus and acorn stretcher. 20th century.

#russian design #10th century #neoclassical #empire style #metalwork #table #plant stand #side table #gueridon

[professorpski]

The Many Teens: Butterick 4209

This pattern from the 1960s shows how companies involved in any element of the clothing trade catered to the booming teen population. “Young Junior” and “Teen” as you see at the bottom of the pattern envelope created a practically redundant set of sizes. 

A size 9 Young Junior was Bust 30.5 Waist 23.5 Hips 32.5

While a size 10 Teen was Bust 30, Waist 24, Hips 32

With only a half inch between sizes, 1/16th of an inch larger or smaller is all it took for each side seam. Any dressmaker would tweak the pattern on the wearer by that much if needed during the fitting process. So, why even bother creating different sizes? Perhaps to cater to the identity of being a teen in an age which admired youthful fashion above all else. The ruffled style may seem young to our eyes, with its ribbons and ruffles, but the empire style bodice with slightly flared skirt below was worn even by mature women of the era.  Notice too this was a formal style worn for a party or wedding. Each one of the models has a pair of white gloves with her. So this was before the very late 1960s when all ideas of dressing formality were considered retrograde.

The pattern company was also reaching out to young dressmakers. The back of the envelope boasts in red block print: “See the new improved Sewing Guide for fast, easy-to-follow instructions.” Yet his was not a super simple pattern. The bodice is darted as well as bowed or ruffled, and while the skirt is easy enough, a full zipper is topped with a hook and eye at the back of the dress. The fabric suggestions indicate the era too with “synthetics, bonded lace” starting the list and cotton, silk, and pique finishing it off. Bonded meant already backed with another fabric or permanent interfacing creating a stiffish fabric that kept its A-line silhouette.

#butterick patterns #butterick 4209 #teenage clothing #vintage sewing pattern #vintage sewing #sewing #dressmaking #vintage dressmaking #1960s fashions #1960s sewing pattern #teen sewing pattern #teen clothing #vintage teen clothing #costume history #dress history #fashion history #bonded fabrics #empire style

[matoriel]

Elizabeth Vigèe Le Brun

French portraitist

#womens art #female artists #classical art #neoclassicism #empire style #elisabeth vigee le brun

[kristabella]

OUTSTANDING EMPIRE-STYLE PERCIER & FONTAINE SCHEME

Spectacular Etruscan-inspired boiserie scheme: door, paneling, and cornices in carved oak painted terracotta color and faux bronze. Formerly owned by one of Napoleon's generals, then Christian Dior, then Loris Azzaro. The designs are on show at the Decorative Arts Museum, Paris. Available for sale.

#aesthetic art #door #empire style #architecture

[nuveau-deco]

Biedermeier Style Armchair. Designed and Manufactured by Danhauser’schen K.K. Privilegierte Möbelfabrik in Vienna, ca. 1820. Materials include a mahogany frame, bronze gilding and upholstery with a renewed textile.

(Source: sammlung.mak.at)

#armchair #chair design #furniture #early 19th century #danhauser furniture factory #biedermeier style #empire style #austrian design #decorative arts #mahogany #bronze #gilding #pink

[kecobe]

La manie de la danse = Dance Mania Philibert-Louis Debucourt (French; 1755–1832) 1809 Color aquatint and etching, printed à la poupée, on paper The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

#Philibert-Louis Debucourt #Philibert Louis Debucourt #Debucourt #French art #French artists #French prints #French printmakers #French aquatints #aquatings #à la poupée #dance #dancers #mania #dancings #cats #cats in art #dogs #dogs in art #Empire style #French fashion #bonnets #Clark Art Institute #social dancing #fashionable #1800s #soldiers #caricatures #French caricatures #First Empire #drawing rooms

[microcosme11]

Album de chiffres & monogrammes couronnes de noblesse, françaises et etrangères : armoiries et écussons by Ch. Crouvezier, 1903

#monograms #empire style

[empirearchives]

Terracotta bust believed to depict Juliette Récamier

Joseph Chinard

C. 1800-1805, Napoleonic era

Musée Cognacq-Jay

#terracotta #Juliette Récamier #Joseph Chinard #Chinard #Madame Récamier #Récamier #bust #napoleonic era #sculpture #napoleonic #first french empire #19th century #19th century art #1800s art #sculptures #neoclassical #neoclassicism #empire style #veil

[jeannepompadour]

Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland by Auguste Simon Garneray, 1800s-1810s

#1800s #19th century #empire style #auguste simon garneray #mdp19th c. #early 19th century #1810s #Netherlands #19th c. Netherlands #france #19th c. France #queen of Holland

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[terracottakore]

big fan of suits 💼

#this was mostly me messing around with a simpler/cleaner style.. #the lasso tool is now my best friend #zombiecleo #ethoslab #bdoubleo100 #falsesymmetry #hermitcraft #empires false is also there (^_^) #terracottaart

[designobjectory]

21st century Italian Klismos chair in Empire (early 19th century) style

A large scale Italian neoclassical chair finely crafted in ebony and pau marfim veneers. Extraordinary details include a frieze of seven classical figures with floral and foliage detailing. Chair is upholstered in black leather with a loose down feather seat cushion.

#italian design #wood inlay #21st century #19th century #empire style #klismos chair #chair #neoclassical

[didanagy]

Mrs. Quentin by Jean Francois Marie Huet-Villiers

#empire style #history of fashion