21 janvier 2016

Cartier. Necklace, 1910, platinum, diamonds, pearls, sapphires @GrandPalais Antique Jewelry.

Robe à l'anglaise, ca. 1780. Kyoto Costume Institute

Robe à la Française, French, ca. 1765. De Young Museum, San Francisco.

Robe à la française, French, ca. 1745-1760. Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Robe à l'Anglaise, British, ca. 1770-1775. Metropolitan Museum of Art. © 2000–2016 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Women with coquettish airs were imposing in robes à la française and robes à l'anglaise throughout the period between 1720 and 1780. The robe à l'anglaise developed with a fitted back after the style of dress worn in England. The silhouette, composed of a funnel-shaped bust feeding into wide rectangular skirts, was inspired by Spanish designs of the previous century and allowed for expansive amounts of textiles... [Lire la suite]

Robe à la Française, French, ca. 1775. LACMA

Cartier. Sautoir, 1907, platinum, diamonds, pearls @GrandPalais Antique Jewelry.

Le Pavillon français. Photo EPV / Thomas Garnier Versailles. Photo EPV / Didier Saulnier Le domaine de Marie-Antoinette gelé ce matin. Photo EPV / Christian Milet Versailles. Photo EPV / Didier Saulnier Versailles. Le parterre de l'Orangerie en hiver.

Cartier. Soleil tiara, 1907, platinum, yellow gold, diamonds, one fancy intense yellow diamond (32.58ct) @GrandPalais Antique Jewelry.

"In the Car" (1963) by Roy Lichtenstein. Oil on Canvas 180.6 x 212.5 cm National Gallery of Scotland. This painting is one of a series from the early 1960s in which Lichtenstein deals with the theme of romance. He would paint his works on a monumental scale, much enlarged from his original source material of comic-strip illustrations. This work is based on an image from the comic Girls' Romances. The original illustration included a thought bubble which read, "I vowed to myself I would not miss my appointment - That I would not go... [Lire la suite]