A family costume party is the theme for this illustration in the February, 1901 edition of La Mode Illustrée. Although they represent a family of the early twentieth-century, the man, his wife, their four children, and another woman are dressed in...
A family of four in their fashions for Philadelphia in 1837. The father wears gray trousers and a green frock coat fastened across the chest with military-style frogs and braiding. The coat has high lapels over a white ruffled collar, and black...
Against a distant pink sky a mother and her two children stand near a pond full of lily pads. The youngest child offers a treat to a white swan. The mother wears a green and white vertically-striped dress with a three tiered skirt. Each tier is...
Against the backdrop of a large family home and a stone balustrade, a mother and her five children in winter fashions for December 1890 show concern for the youngest girl who is crying. The first girl on the left wears an outfit of red and gray....
A woman and a child stand with a young girl who seems to be dressed for her confirmation. The woman on the left wears a long full skirted skirt and jacket of blue satin. The skirt has six horizontal bands of ruched panels. More ruched bands edge...
A mother and her two daughters are pictured inside a church, probably for the elder girl's communion. The mother stands at a wooden prie-dieu with red upholstery. She wears a long black dress with ruched edges and a train. Over the dress is a black...
A young women is seated at the piano forte, while her mother looks on, and a younger girl plays with her puppy in the parlor. Sitting in a purple chair, the young woman touches the open musics score, while she begins to play. She wears a white...
Illustrated by female artist Laure Noel (1827-1878), this print for the Catholic magazine "Musée des Familles" depicts two women and a child (or perhaps three generations) outdoors in a garden as they model their French fashions for 1857. The...
A mother and eight children display their Parisian fashions for December, 1903, while they gather for a party. The figure of the mother divides the composition in half with four younger children on her right and four adolescents on her left. The...
In this illustration of a Catholic family, a mother prepares her daughter for her First Communion while the girl's brother stands nearby. With one hand on a prie-dieu and the other holding her prayer book, the girl wears a white full skirted dress,...
The central image shows a bearded man wearing a black top hat, a long, wide-sleeved black overcoat or cloak with a black fur collar, a double-breasted burgundy waistcoat with dark buttons and a black collar, and a white cravat. To the viewer's...
With a French chateau in the distance, a mother and her two young daughters walk outside in winter attire. The mother is dressed in a forest green dress with horizontal stripes of a slightly darker green. Her long sleeves are tightly fitted with...
A woman and two children stand in a well-appointed parlor. The older girl, who leans against the arm of a blue-striped silk upholstered chair, wears a blue redingote fastened with buttons to the waist. Her white elaborately-embroidered dress, with...
One of several drawings from "La Vieille Armee francaise" (1820) or "La Vie politique et militaire de Napoleon" (Paris, 1826), showing infantry uniforms or "military exploits under the First Empire, which made [Charlet's] work popular with the...
In a classical outdoor setting of white marble walls and greenery, a mother and her two children model their French fashions for the Journal des Jeunes Personnes. The year is 1859, the ascendancy of the regime of Napoléon III (Louis-Napoléon...
Sitting together in a garden is a family of five children. The youngest boy on the left wears a gray outfit in a masculine style. His skirt is a kilt, pleated on the sides and back. Over this he wears a loose gray waistcoat and coat with wide...
Boys' clothing; Buttons; Clothing and dress; Collars; Color in clothing; Dogs; Dresses; Flowers; Girls' clothing; Hairstyles; Leaves; Shoes; Sleeves; Sofas; Stripes; Wall panels; Women's clothing; Frames
A mother and her two children model their Parisian fashions for 1914. The mother wears a long, sleeveless beige dress in silk crèpe de chine, with loose folds falling from its white jewel neckline. The dress is loosely belted at the waist and has...
