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Can you tell me about 18th century clothing in Arles as seen in Raspal’s paintings?

It’s the traditional clothing from Arles, that’s why it looks a little odd, since they wear the 18th century silhouette but the garments are not what we’re used to see:

The key pieces seem to be the fichu (in different fabrics but my favourite ones are the printed ones), the lace caps, the apron and the jewellery.

The lack of stays in many of the images is quite curious, and they seem to be wearing quilted jumps instead, and make them visible. The jumps would offer support without the restriction of the boned stays, making them a perfect garment for working women, which were key subjects of Antoine Raspal’s art.

I didn’t find much about l'Arlésienne costume because most of it was in French, but you can take a look at more paintings by Raspal from a 2018 solo exhibition at the Musée Réattu, take a look at the traditional jewellery from Arles (lots and lots of crosses), and look at this video from Le Musée Provençal du Costume et du Bijou Fragonard showing the Arlésienne costume with pieces from their collection:

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Portrait de jeune fille en costume d’Arles, 1779, Antoine Raspal, Collection Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence.

Le peintre et sa famille, vers 1780, Antoine Raspal, Collection Musée Réattu.

L’atelier de couture, vers 1780, Antoine Raspal, Collection Musée Réattu.

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Grasse, on the French coast, is the perfume capital of France and can be an olfactory scent if you have a passion for perfume.

The town has an international museum of perfumery, three perfume manufacturers to visit and if that is not enough for you to go to the farms where fragrant flowers are harvested for perfume. When you're not mixing your own signature scent in the lab or hoarding lavish soap, you can look around the town of art and costume museums or set out for a big day. In no time at all, you could be on a Riviera beach, deep underground in a cave or hundreds of meters up in a perched village. Discover the best things to do in Grasse.

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1. Musée International de la Parfumerie

Jasmine, tuberose, possibly roses, purple and orange flowers are all grown locally.

The Grasse Lemon Perfume Museum presents the savior, honed over centuries, into the town's perfume town. Trace the origins of the industry in Grasse and how it relates to trade and historical projects like the Siagne Canal. Then take the nose for the different scents and ingredients at the museum's scent sensing points.

You can also take a look at an ancient perfume bottle, designed by master glass craftsmen René Lalique.

2. Parfumerie Fragonard

Follow your nose for a free tour of the perfume shops and the Fragonard store, which has a large presence in Grasse. You can tour the facility, based on what you find at the Grasse perfume museum, see where perfumes are distilled and how they are bottled.

You will end up in a big store, and we challenge you to leave without buying something! Now, if that still doesn't satisfy your curiosity about perfumes, you can pre-register to join an excellent perfume workshop at Fragonard.

The course lasts 90 minutes, in which, with the guidance of a qualified perfume expert, you will learn about the structure of the perfume (base, head, and heart) and go to the lab to create make your own scent.

3. Domaine de la Royrie

Grasse also has a suitable environment for olive growing and rich ancient cultures such as flower farms on the plateau and hillsides surrounding the town.

The Jac de Royrie Hillside is an olive garden planted in the 1400s by the monks of Lérins Monastery, and on a visit, you will discover the history of these venerable trees, how to keep the land and how Olives are picked and pressed.

The estate also has a vegetable garden and small houses where the farmers in the plantation lived in the 1700s. At the end of the tour the owner, Lionel Brault conducts a tasting session, in which you detect the scents and complex flavors of their award-winning oils as you would a fine wine.

4. Jean-Honoré Fragonard Villa-Museum

Fragonard was known for his lyrical and occasionally cheeky late-rococo paintings about love. The building is very beautiful, with an elegant house decorated with 13 Fragonard paintings, and a garden sheltered by tall palm trees.

5. Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Provence

On the street, Mirabeau is a walled castle for Marquis Cabris, Jean-Paul de Clapiers, who is married to Earl Mirabeau, one of the key figures in the French Revolution. It is now a handsome site for a regional museum with art galleries, ceramics, and archeology.

The pinnacle is the lovely gourmet of Provençal from the workshops of Marseille, Moustiers, Varages and La Tour déAigues, mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries. In the fine arts galleries are paintings by Charles Nègre who made his name as a pioneer of photography in the mid-1800s.

6. Musée Provençal du Costume et du Bijou

In the salon of a neoclassical house next to Fragonard Perfumerie is the beautifully-staged display of costumes in the area since the 18th century. Mannequins with skirts, skirts, gowns, and shawls are a testament to the skill and elegance of textiles, lace, and sewing in Provence during this period.

These dresses are displayed in individual bell jars in the middle of the rooms, allowing you to walk around to see the back as well as the front. They have also arranged in context; You can see the abundance of the salon, while the kitchen of the kitchen has clothes that staff will wear.

Displayed in cabinets is a trove of jewelry and other ornamental pieces like belt buckles.

7. La Domaine de Manon

In the capital of perfume, one of the main flower plantations welcomes you to visit. In a Provence landscape of cypress trees, olive trees, and remote limestone mountains, Domaine de Manon offers lavender, May roses, jasmine and tuberose for Dior perfumes.

The farm also makes its own rosewater and jams that you can purchase from the shop. And it is hardly necessary to say that Jac de Manon's products are seasonal, so jasmine harvest is from August to October, while early May to mid-June is the time to grow roses. May, which is the typical scent in Grasse perfume.

8. More Perfumeries

You can save the scent of the famous perfume maker Grasse, with two tours and another visit. Galimard, Grasse's oldest perfumer, has been traveling since 1747 and in that century provided the French court with ointments and fragrances.

There you’ll see the laboratories where you’ll be given a clear breakdown of how extraction works, and then visit the shop full of colognes, Eau de toilettes, perfumes, and soaps. The second oldest is Molinard, founded in 1849 and the headquarters designed by Gustave Eiffel.

You can also create your own scent at a workshop here, and appreciate their antique labels and bottles specially designed by Baccarat and Lalique.

9. Gorges du Loup

Take 15 minutes to the north and the scenery becomes pristine, with huge limestone walls and a blessed canyon with three waterfalls.

The way you deal with the Gorges du Loup is entirely your choice: For a great tornado ride, you even have to get out of your car, drive the D6 and D3 zigzag, follow the Loup river. from opposite sides.

There’s a visitor center too, with turnstiles and access to a metallic walkway for views of one of the waterfalls and the captivating turquoise waters that gather in pools.

And then, if you can’t resist the lure of the river you can plump for a full-on “canyoning” exploration: You’ll don a wetsuit and hardhat and traipsing along the valley floor, scrambling up rocks, sliding down cascades and leaping into crystalline pools.

10. Gourdon

The cute stone village is not much more than a couple of streets, but the views 700 meters above the Loup Valley will leave you lost for words.

The castle is from the 1100s, and although you cannot go in at this time you can pass a few minutes in the courtyard to watch singing, designed by the famous André Le Nôtre Versailles.

Gourdon is an excursion for early birds because of its wild popularity that makes this tiny settlement heavy for tourists on summer afternoons.

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