Isola Bella
Handcoloured Illustration
June 1914 (published)
June 1914 (published)
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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 Redern evening dresses, with its glamorous Italian lakes setting, is characteristic of Lepape's elegant style.
Object details
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Title | Isola Bella (published title) |
Materials and techniques | printer's ink, hand-colouring, pochoir print |
Brief description | 'Isola Bella'; pochoir print with hand-colouring, after a drawing by George Barbier, from La Gazette du Bon Ton, Paris, June 1914 |
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 |
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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 Redern evening dresses, with its glamorous Italian lakes setting, is characteristic of Lepape's elegant style. |
Bibliographic reference | Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1974 |
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Accession number | CIRC.18-1974 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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