Resultados de búsqueda: les modes parisiennes sous le directoire de francois claudius compte-calix

Paris: Des Modes Parisiennes, et al. 15 plates of colored engravings. 32 x 23 cm. White stiff paper wrappers with blue titling to cover; undated but presumed c. 1871. Moderate to heavy soil to covers, with chipping to edges. Spine has almost completely chipped away, and leaves are disbound with only fragments of the binding string remaining. Top corner (12 x 7 mm) of both title page and first plate have torn away. Small bump to bottom corner of text block, resulting in some very small diagonal creases to bottom corner of some plates. All 15 plates are present, clean, and in very good condition. . Disbound. Fair.

Very good copy of Compte-Calix's suite of fashion plates of the French Directory era
Complete with all 15 very finely handcoloured fashion plates, 13 belles and two dandies
The women dressed in bonnets and gowns decorated with frills, bows and ribbons, a few Merveilleuses in Roman style robes. The gentlemen, or Royalist Incroyables, in tricorne or top hat, riding coat, gilet, breeches and boots, armed with cudgels.
All the plates drawn by Francois Claudius Compte-Calix, an artist who worked for the weekly fashion magazine Modes Parisiennes
Based on contemporary illustrations by Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune, the French draftsman, illustrator and engraver whose career spanned the last years of the Ancien Regime and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras.
Finely engraved on steel by E. Bracquet, A. Carrache and Paul Lacourriere and very finely hand-coloured
With two-page explanation of the costumes bound in at rear
François-Claudius Compte-Calix (1813–1880) was a French genre painter and fashion… Leer más