#1750s

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ab. 1759 Jean-Baptiste Greuze - Anne-Marie de Bricqueville de Laluserne, Marquise de Bezons

(Baltimore Museum of Art)

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1750-1760

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Jean-Baptiste Greuze - Le Guitariste (1757)

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Wentke (Gown)

Mid 18th Century

The Netherlands

Women in Hindeloopen, a town in the northern Netherlandish province of Friesland, traditionally wore this type of striking lightweight coat, called a wentke, on special occasions. Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, wentkes were usually made of boldly patterned Indian chintzes, and contrary to the custom in the rest of Europe of confining chintz to casual and private occasions, residents of Hindeloopen elevated this exotic fabric to a formal status. The wentke was often worn with other garments of Indian cotton. (The MET)

Peabody Essex Museum (Object Number: 2012.22.15)

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Kiddish cup for marriage, 1752. Originated in Breslau, Germany (now known as Wrocław, Poland).

From the Yeshiva University Museum in the Center for Jewish History.

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Beckside House in Lancashire, England

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Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (1724-1805) "Self-Portrait" (1750-1759) Oil on canvas Rococo Located in the Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

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Bag, 1750-1800, France.

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Blue Silk Court Dress with Silver Embroidery, ca. 1750, British.

Met Museum.

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Robe à la française, c. 1740-55; France

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Pleasure c.1754

Anton Raphael Mengs (German, Ústi nad Labem (Aussig) 1728–1779 Rome)

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Christian Seybold - Portrait of an Old Woman (1750)

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Banyan

c.1750

Coromandel Coast, India for Western Market

LACMA (Accession Number: M.2005.42)

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Le Repos, by Jean-François Gilles Colson (1759).

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A Storm and a Shipwreck by Claude-Joseph Vernet, 1754

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François-Hubert Drouais (1727-1775) "Portrait of a Woman, Said to be Madame Charles Simon Favart (Marie Justine Benoîte Duronceray, 1727–1772)" (1757) Oil on canvas Located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, United States In 1745 Mademoiselle Duronceray—the singer, dancer, and comedienne probably portrayed here—married Charles Simon Favart, the father of French comic opera. Among her best-known roles was that of the heroine in The Loves of Bastien and Bastienne, 1753, in which she inspired a revolution in theatrical costume by wearing authentic peasant dress. Drouais’s portrait of her seated at a harpsichord recalls traditional representations of Saint Cecilia, patron saint of music.