EditorialWoman in elaborate upswept hairstyle with curls, feathers and ribbons called Desire to Please. Coiffure au Desir de plaire with curls, feathers and ribbons. Handcoloured lithograph by de Laubadere from Octave Uzanne's Stylish Hairstyle or Eccentric Fin...
EditorialEwer, Fran?ois-Desir? Froment-Meurice (1802?1855), ca. 1850, French, Paris, Silver gilt, Height: 15 in. (38.1 cm), Metalwork-Silver, Fran?ois-Desir? Froment-Meurice (1802?1855), Froment-Meurice, among the most renowned silversmiths of mid-nineteenth-ce...
EditorialWoman in elaborate upswept hairstyle with curls, feathers and ribbons called Desire to Please. Coiffure au Desir de plaire with curls, feathers and ribbons. Handcoloured lithograph by de Laubadere from Octave Uzanne's Stylish Hairstyle or Eccentric Fin...
EditorialTapestry of the Lady and the Unicorn. The motto of this series of six tapestries is " A mon seul desir" -" After my own desire". The series was woven in Brussels, after Parisian cartons, for Jean le Viste, burgher of Paris. The five...