Des Ombrelles
Handcoloured Illustration
1913 (Designed and printed)
1913 (Designed and printed)
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The Gazette du Bon Ton was a French magazine published between 1912 to 1925 which showcased the very best 'fashion, luxury and art' of its time. It targeted a cultured and discerning readership and the illustration plates were of exceptionally high quality, printed on expensive paper with the jewel-like colours added by hand using a stencilling technique. Georges Lepape produced numerous fashion plates for the magazine, an artist who, as The Times expressed it in 1914, specialised in creating 'designs of many wonderful female things'. This fashion plate for parasols is characteristic of Lepape's elegant and sparkling style.
Object details
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| Title | Des Ombrelles (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | printer's ink, hand-colouring, pochoir print |
| Brief description | Georges Lepape, Des ombrelles (sunshades), process engraving and pochoir, fashion plate from La Gazette du Bon Ton, No. 6, 1913 |
| Physical description | Pochoir print with hand-colouring, on paper |
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| Credit line | Acquired from Weinreb and Douwma Ltd in 1974. |
| Object history | One of 14 plates from La Gazette du Bon Ton, Paris, 1913-1920 |
| Summary | The Gazette du Bon Ton was a French magazine published between 1912 to 1925 which showcased the very best 'fashion, luxury and art' of its time. It targeted a cultured and discerning readership and the illustration plates were of exceptionally high quality, printed on expensive paper with the jewel-like colours added by hand using a stencilling technique. Georges Lepape produced numerous fashion plates for the magazine, an artist who, as The Times expressed it in 1914, specialised in creating 'designs of many wonderful female things'. This fashion plate for parasols is characteristic of Lepape's elegant and sparkling style. |
| Bibliographic reference | Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1974 |
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| Accession number | CIRC.32-1974 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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