Les Modes Parisiennes (Primary Title)
Fashion Plate (Object Name)

François-Claudius Compte-Calix, French, 1813 - 1880 (Artist)

ca. 1865
French
Works On Paper
Prints
hand colored engraving on wove paper, mounted overall to blue paper support
Sheet: 10 1/4 × 6 3/4 in. (26.04 × 17.15 cm)
Mount (blue paper support): 13 × 10 in. (33.02 × 25.4 cm)
40.9.221
Not on view
Signed in plate lower left: Compte Calix delin. Signed in plate lower right: G Montaiet d'Oloron sc.
Printed beneath image lower right: 210. Printed beneath image in center: Les Modes Parisiennes/ Chapeau de Melles. Romain, rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, 18. Fleurs de Millery éléve de Batton r. de/ Ménars, 12. Robes de Mme. Olmer, rue Montmartre, 169. Dentelles de Violard, rue de Choiseul, 2 bis./ Gants Mayer, rue de la Paix, 26. Toilettes fournis par la maison de Commission des Modes Parisiennes/ rue Louis le Grand, 9./ Paris, Chez Aubert et Cie. Place de la Bourse. Inscribed in graphite on verso of mount upper right: about 1865. Inscribed in ink on verso of mount in center: After the Wedding/ Signing the register.
Gift of Margaret Dashiell
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