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Incroyable : Cravate a oreilles de lievre. Habit vert saule. Culotte de casimir.

Painting
ca. 1815 (made)
Artist/Maker
Vernet, Horace Emile-Jean (artist)
Place of origin
France (made)

A watercolour depicting a man wearing a willow green coat and cashmere trousers.


Object details

Categories
Paintings
Designs
Fashion
Object type
Painting
Titles
  • Incroyable : Cravate a oreilles de lievre. Habit vert saule. Culotte de casimir. (assigned by artist)
  • Incroyables Merveilleuses (series title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour
Paper
Watercolour
Painting
Brief description
Painting by Horace Emile-Jean Vernet, 'Incroyable : Cravate a oreilles de lievre. Habit vert saule. Culotte de casimir' [Incredible: Tie with hare ears. Willow green coat. Cashmere trousers], original design for a plate in the series 'Incroyables Merveilleuses', watercolour, France, ca. 1815
Physical description
A watercolour depicting a man wearing a willow green coat and cashmere trousers.
Dimensions
  • Approx. height: 31.4cm
  • Approx. width: 22.6cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1991
Style
French School
Object history
This is the original design for one of the plates in the series Incroyables et Merveilleuses, commissioned by Pierre La Mesangere, the editor of the Journal des Dames et des Modes, engraved (in reverse) by Georges-Jacques Gatine and published between 1810 and 1818. Of the 33 plates, 31 were drawn by Vernet. There are three impressions of this design (and two of E.3188-1991) in the V&A collections : E.109-1947, E.133-1947 (E.102-1947, E.127-1947, 23698.2 after E.3189-1991).
Subjects depicted
Fashion
Man
Coats
Trousers
Bibliographic references
  • Horace Vernet 1789-1863 : Incroyables et merveilleuses : 25 watercolours from the collection of the Duchesse de Berry. London: Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, 1991. 59pp, illus. ISBN: 1873277008. no. 9
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1991
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.3189-1991

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Record createdMarch 4, 2009
Record URL
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