#Empire fashion

[sartorialadventure]

Names of shades and when in Regency England they were most popular.

[fashionsfromhistory]

Court Dress

1820s

Portugal

Museu Nacional do Traje (Accession Number: 18356; 18358)

[costumedump]

Crown Princess Josefina's Red Redingote With Small Gold Wire Buttons

Circa 1810s

The Royal Armoury

Stockholm, Sweden

[paletapessoal]

Wool and cotton pelisse, ca. 1810-1820

[empirearchives]

Empress Josephine, circa 1805

By Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French

Napoleonic era, empire period

[microcosme11]

Marguerite Gérard (Grasse 1761-1837 Paris)

Portrait of a lady and a gentleman in an interior, 1818.

christies

[gogmstuff]

Augusta Amalia of Bavaria - She fell in love, but Napoléon intervened and she had to marry 1808 Empress Josephine’s son Eugéne to spare Bavaria from imperial wrath.

Top left:  Augusta Amalia of Bavaria, bust length, wearing tiara with pearls, pearl earring, and low dress by Paolo Caronni and/or Giuseppe Longhi (British Museum). From their Web site 1705X2000 @300 2.1Mj.

Top right:  1809 Auguste Amalie de Beauharnais, Vizekönigin von Italien, mit ihren Töchtern Josephine und Eugenie by Andrea Appiani (location ?). From Wikimedia via pinterest.com/marcellagarsia/fashion-in-painting-xix-secolo/1800s/ 771X1023 @72 378kj.

Second row:  1810 Augusta Amalia Ludovika von Bayern, Duchess of Leuchtenberg by ? (location ?). From napoleondidthat.tumblr.com/post/122145342551/augusta-amalia 800X960 @72 270kj.

Third row left:  1814 Princess Augusta Amalia of Bavaria as a Vice-queen of Italy by ? (location ?). From csfd.cz/film/1010768-napoleons-erben-in-bayern-die-herzoge-von-leuchtenberg/galerie/?page=2 1268X1766 @144 4Mp.

Third row right:  ca. 1815 Augusta-Amélie de Bavière by François Pascal Simon Gérard (Versailles). From art.rmngp.fr/en/library/artworks; erased cracks & spots w Pshop & enlarged 25% 609X936 @96 140kj.

Fourth row:  ca. 1816 Auguste Amalie de Baviere by Joseph Karl Stieler (Château de Malmaison - Rueil-Malmaison, Île-de-France, France). From Wikinedia; erased cracks & flaws and fixed edges w Pshop 725X925 @72 1.3Mp.

Fifth row left:  1820 (or later) Augusta of Bavaria, Duchess of Leuchtenberg by Garnier (Royal Collection RCIN 618050), From their Web site 1579X2000 @300 956kj.

Fifth row right:  1824-1825 Auguste-Amélie de Bavière by Joseph Karl Stieler (Châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau - Rueil-Malmaison, Île-de-France, France). From Wikimedia 1006X1254 @72 260kj.

Sixth row:  ca. 1825 Auguste Amalie, Princess of Bayern by Joseph Karl Stieler (auctioned by Ketterer Kunst) From pinterest.com/AlexyMet/ritratti-aristocratici-eleganti/; fixed flaws and spots throughout image with Photoshop.  3003X4002 @300 4.1Mj. This dress is more in keeping with the 1830s than the 1820s.

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[meteor752]

Honestly the story of mlp must be very weird from the pov of a random guy in ponyville, like one day a new antisocial librarian moves into town, and like a year later that librarian ascends into godhood and becomes the new ruler of the entire world

[artbysarf]

The Moth and the Lizard are married actually

[artist-ellen]

All the Historical Mermay’s together!

I had a lot of fun with this mermay prompt list by chloe.z.arts and they turned into a pretty cool collection of illustrations!

Prompt list by chloe.z.arts on instagram.

I am the artist! Do not post without permission & credit! Thank you! Come visit me over on: instagram.com/ellenartistic or tiktok: @ellenartistic

[earlymodernbarbie]

Reference drawing of Juana I of Castile for the Tomb of Maximillian I by Jörg Kölderer (1522)

[fashionsfromhistory]

Gloves

1800-1810

Spain

Fashioned from fine Spanish kid, these gloves embody high fashion with a double historical twist. The lattice pattern expresses the geometry of the newly-resurrected design vocbulary of the classical period, while the figures at the top are taken from a series of etchings by Jacques Callot (1592-1635) entitled Varie Figure Gobbi (Various Hunchbacked Figures) ca. 1622., which William Konig (active ca. 1721) interpreted in prints. Callot was an ancestor of the famed Parisian couturieres, The Callot Sisters.

The MET (Accession Number: 2009.300.2259a, b)

[costumedump]

Princess Sofia Albertina's Court Dress For The Coronation Of King Karl XIII Of Sweden

1809

The Royal Armoury

Stockholm, Sweden

[sartorialadventure]

u/ChipHazardous:

"For a very long time the Roman empire was able to acquire silk through trade over 'the silk road' to China, but never able to unlock the secrets of producing it domestically themselves. Until 552AD, when two monks preaching in India then travelled to China, where they witnessed the guarded methods of using the live silk worm to spin the famous thread. Knowing the importance of what they'd learned, the monks returned to Constantinople to report directly to the emperor Justinian. He personally met the monks, heard all the details of what they'd seen, then asked them to return to China and find a way of smuggling these worms back to the empire. They agreed, and prepared for the 2 year ~6,500km (4,000mi) trek back to China on foot, hoof and wheel. Once back in China they acquired either eggs or young larvae, since the adults are too delicate for transport, and tucked them into hollowed bamboo canes for the long journey straight back home. Once the monks made it back to Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey), domestic silk production slowly ramped up and the need for long journeys along the 'silk road' ramped down. Over time, this allowed the same type of silk monopoly which China had enjoyed through the prior centuries to now be established in the Mediterranean, becoming one of the bedrocks of the Byzantine economy for the next 700 years.

It's crazy to think about these two guys. 1500 years before you or I were born, making their second multi-year, 6,500km trek back from China, smuggling two bamboo canes full of bugs which would fuel the economy of one of the world's largest civilizations for the next 700 years. I wonder if they knew and understood these possibilities when they went to scoop the worms from their baskets in China...Imagine the anxiety trying to keep them hidden and alive the whole way back!"

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Louis-Léopold Boilly

Early 19th century

France, Napoleonic era