#belle époque

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Albert Lynch Joan of Arc in prayer

Oil on canvas, 95 x 47 cm, 19th-20th century

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Day Dress

c. 1907

Canadian Museum of History

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Belle Époque Love 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 🏳️‍🌈

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1900 Paris World's Fair.

Photo Léon & Lévy.

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Henri Gervex, Rolla (detail), 1878.

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux.

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Mme Chamas, 66 Rue des Petits Champs, Paris

day dress

France, 1890-1892

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Portrait of Elisabeth Drexel (1905) by Giovanni Boldini

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François Flameng: Scenes from Napoleon’s time

Spot Napoleon in all but one 🤓

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Scene from H. W. Geissendörfer´s movie adaption (1981) of Thomas Mann´s famous novel "Der Zauberberg" ("Magic Mountain"), a story set in an early 20th century tuberculosis sanatorium. A young man who visits his cousin in the facility serves as a hanger story for a broader literary discussion of politics, philosophy, love, life, suffering and death. Christoph Eichhorn (born 1957) as Hans Castorp to whom in this scene is revealed that he no longer is a mere visitor to the clinic, but has to become a patient as well.

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Oscar Bluhm (German, 1867–1912) • Soirée • 1907

This painting, dated 1907, depicts a social event with the two main female figures – the one standing with a gentleman, the other sitting with her back to the viewer – are wearing rather risqué dresses for the Edwardian era.

I like the painting, so I thought I'd use it as a springboard to discuss its atypical choice of dresses for the era. What's mostly seen in Edwardian evening attire, circa 1907, looks like this:

Plenty of lace, yes but generally not sleeveless or cut too low in front or back. Drapey, sheer panels and wraps were popular, as shown in the image on the left. On the right we see a dress with an S silhouette, which lasted only a couple of years and gave way to the more relaxed fashions depicted in the left image.

I did, however, find several photographs of actresses from the early 1900s who are wearing what we now call "bodycon" dresses; curve-hugging, sleeveless or off-shoulder, and low-cut.

The actress on the right is Ethel Barrymore.

So perhaps the women depicted in the painting are actresses, daring socialites, or escorts.

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Cora Laparcerie, Belle Époque actress, Art Nouveau Headdress, Original Antique Reutlinger Postcard from 1903.

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Scène Du Bal Jean Béraud

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Dress

c. 1903-1905

maker unknown, England

Victoria and Albert Museum

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Antique Danish Belle Époque Art Nouveau silver plated table spoon from 1890-1910

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Geneviève Vix as Circe, photographed by Léopold Reutlinger c. 1907.

Source : @die-rosastrasse / @gretagarbos

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michelle pfeiffer plays léa de lonval in “chéri” (2oo9), dir. stephen frears .