Magasin des Modes Nouvelles, Quatrième Année, Vingt-neuvième Cahier, 21 Septembre 1789, September 21, 1789
Hand-colored engraving; letterpressexpand_more
The Minnich Collection The Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fund, 1966expand_more P.15,429-P.15,431
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The first of these magazines to illustrate fashionable responses to the events of July 14, 1789—the storming of the Bastille—features two women, subtly registering the ingenuity, speed, and flexibility of the marchandes des modes. Red, white, and blue colors predominate, and both women, we are told, wear the “cockade of the Nation”: large at this early date, they would grow smaller over time. The woman on the right wears a symbolically coded bonnet, bearing overlapping images of a cross, sword, and spade representing a harmonious merging of the three estates (clergy, nobility, and commoners). The accompanying text declares: “These distinctions are no longer wanted in France. There are none but citizens now.”
Details
- Title
- Magasin des Modes Nouvelles, Quatrième Année, Vingt-neuvième Cahier, 21 Septembre 1789
- Artist Life
- 1760–1837
- Role
- Engraver
- Accession Number
- P.15,429-P.15,431
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Colas 1936 Cabinet des Modes Le Brun
- Curator Approved
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