Editorial"New Dress, in the Roman Style, introduced at the Opera by a foreign Lady of distinction". The hair dressed, without power, into a variety of natural curls; two bands of gold in the hair. Body and petticoat of puce-coloured satin; the body richly embro...
EditorialWoman in traveling clothes for riding a cabriolet: she wears a jacket with three collars in Peking puce, a gilet and petticoat in Peking apple-green, and a felt hat decorated with feathers. Handcoloured lithograph from Fashions and Customs of Marie Ant...
Editorial"New Dress, in the Roman Style, introduced at the Opera by a foreign Lady of distinction". The hair dressed, without power, into a variety of natural curls; two bands of gold in the hair. Body and petticoat of puce-coloured satin; the body richly embro...
EditorialWaistcoat, Medium: silk, linen Technique: chain stitch embroidery made with a tambour hook using 12 colors of silk, on silk plain weave. Back: linen plain weave, Man's waistcoat with standing collar and welt pockets. Embroidered on the center front edg...
EditorialCircular snuff box, Stamped and rolled gold, cut opalescent glass, metallic foil, Circular, with detachable cover; gold, the cover, sides and base decorated with silhouette landscapes of trees and birds painted in puce color on silver foil under enamel...
EditorialTable Centerpiece, Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735, porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold, A table centerpiece formed in four sections as flowing rococo scrollwork shaded in tones of iron-red, puce, yellow, blue and green. Partially drap...
EditorialWoman with her hair combed up over a pouf (support) and decorated with flowers, pearls and a sash, called the Flea. La Pouf a la Puce. Handcoloured lithograph by de Laubadere from Octave Uzanne's Stylish Hairstyle or Eccentric Finery from the era of Ki...
EditorialWoman in traveling clothes for riding a cabriolet: she wears a jacket with three collars in Peking puce, a gilet and petticoat in Peking apple-green, and a felt hat decorated with feathers. Handcoloured lithograph from Fashions and Customs of Marie Ant...
EditorialLa puce, from Histoire naturelle. Pablo Picasso; Spanish, 1881-1973. Date: 1936. Dimensions: 325 x 215 mm (image); 365 x 278 mm (sheet). Aquatint, sugar lift etching, scraping, and drypoint on ivory wove paper. Origin: Spain.
EditorialWoman with her hair combed up over a pouf (support) and decorated with flowers, pearls and a sash, called the Flea. La Pouf a la Puce. Handcoloured lithograph by de Laubadere from Octave Uzanne's Stylish Hairstyle or Eccentric Finery from the era of Ki...
Editorial"New Dress, in the Roman Style, introduced at the Opera by a foreign Lady of distinction". The hair dressed, without power, into a variety of natural curls; two bands of gold in the hair. Body and petticoat of puce-coloured satin; the body richly embro...
EditorialLady in a Circassian dress. Galerie des modes et costumes francais, dessines d. Paris, 1911-14. A pretty lady in a Circassian dress of puce Italian gauze, with a skirt in the same gauze over another pink silk skirt, ornamented with puffed gauze and blu...
EditorialWoman with her hair combed up over a pouf (support) and decorated with flowers, pearls and a sash, called the Flea. La Pouf a la Puce. Handcoloured lithograph by de Laubadere from Octave Uzanne's Stylish Hairstyle or Eccentric Finery from the era of Ki...
EditorialWoman in traveling clothes for riding a cabriolet: she wears a jacket with three collars in Peking puce, a gilet and petticoat in Peking apple-green, and a felt hat decorated with feathers. Handcoloured lithograph from Fashions and Customs of Marie Ant...