#1640s

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1640 Justus Sustermans - Portrait of a Lady in Red Dress

(Grinnell College Museum of Art)

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Jan Baptist Weenix (1621-c.1659), Bartholomeus van der Helst (1613-1670) "Shepherds boy with sheep and goats" (c. 1647) Oil on canvas Dutch Golden Age Currently in a private collection

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Imperial throne-chair cushion cover, 1644-1911, China.

[jeannepompadour]

Portrait of a lady by Maddalena Corvina, 1635-45

[artschoolglasses]

Bronze Vase with Roses, Pedro de Camprobin, 1640-60

[clove-pinks]

Dom Miguel de Castro, Congolese envoy, c. 1643. He served as a mediator between King Garcia II of Kongo and the Dutch Republic.

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Oil Painting, 1646, Dutch.

By Gerrit Dou.

Portraying a girl in a yellow dress and blue apron and a little boy in a black plumed hat.

Royal Collection Trust.

[my18thcenturysource]

Today, in Useless Information:

During the pandemic I made a baroque costume for a dancer, and last week he asked me to share the documentation for the suit since he's submitting the whole project to a museum. I said, sure.

And I had forgotten HOW WELL DOCUMENTED IS EVERYTHING. Like. ?????!!!!!!!!. I had TOTALLY FORGOTTEN that EVERYTHING, from the way I cut the fabric pieces to keep the floral repetitions in the brocade, to the interfacing, to the way I added the metallic buttons or made the falling band and the cuffs, everything is based on existing garments and made/finished with historical and hand made techniques.

????!!!!!!

I mean, look at this shit:

All garments, of course are adapted for functionality to work on stage and with the fast changes a dancers have to make. But still, just the sleeveless doublet structure is *chef kiss*. And I have no photos of the interior, but the breeches and the doublet attach, in a VERY historical way.

HOW DID I FORGET ALL OF THAT?!

Anyway, I think I'll ask for the finished garments to take some interior and details photos, and when the project gets finished, I'll share some photos.

[dwellordream]

- Margot Lister, Costume

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1648 Philippe de Champaigne - The Provost of Merchants and the Aldermen of the City of Paris

(Louvre Museum)

[oncanvas]

Five Butterflies, a Moth and Two Beetles, Wenceslaus Hollar, 1646

Etching 3 ⅛ x 4 ⅝ in. (8 x 11.8 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA

[somethingwithmoles]

Rembrandt van Rijn, Agatha Bas, 1641, oil on canvas, 105.4 x 83.9 cm, Buckingham Palace, London

Source: Royal Collection Trust

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Adriaen van Utrecht (1599-1652) "Banquet Still Life" (1644) Oil on canvas Located in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Marriage contract, Groom Isaac Pereira, Bride Rachael, 1648, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

[silindro]

Unknown artist, Portrait of Don Miguel de Castro, Emissary of Congo, 1641-45

[artschoolglasses]

A Witch, Salvator Rosa, 1646