A Visual Archive of 19th-Century Elegance and the Styles of Women in Portraiture
Fashion was architecture in motion — and color its visible language.
The Colors of Fashionable Ladies gathers thirty-seven stylish and masterful portraits of women from the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries, revealing how silk, satin, velvet, and lace shaped both silhouette and chromatic harmony in these beautiful paintings of women.
Each portrait includes a carefully extracted palette highlighting the dominant chromatic colors found in each portrait.
More than a collection of images, this book explores how textile construction, and social position intersected to define modern femininity in paint.
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The Colors of Fashionable Ladies: Silk, Satin, and the Art of Color in Portraiture