The Opera Garnier, is a renowned opera house in Paris, France. Designed by the architect Charles Garnier, it is a masterpiece of Second Empire architecture and was inaugurated in 1875. The Opera Garnier is celebrated for its opulent and ornate interiors, including the famous grand staircase, chandeliers, and Marc Chagall-painted ceiling. It continues to host ballet and opera performances and is an iconic symbol of Parisian cultural heritage.

📸: Andrea Perotta, Constance de Tourniel

Day Dress

Charles Frederick Worth

c.1870

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Accession Number: 2002.696.1-5)

Carte de visite of a French naval officer with perfectly curled hair and a matinee idol face, c. 1860s

Three-story Second Empire-style house, with square tower and rounded windows above entranceway. Surrounded by metal fence. Two automobiles in street in foreground. Handwritten on back: "Ducharme, William H., brother of Charles, Ducharme family, 2680 E. Jefferson Ave. showing old French pear trees (2) at front and left of house, May 23, 1923, demolished 1948. See Bulletin of the D. Inst. of Arts, vol. 22, no. 6, March 1943, p. 61 illus., p. 48 text; built 1869 by Mortimer L. Smith, architect."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

French 6th Dragoon Regiment, Crimean War 1854-1856

The Walewskis and Roosevelts

The Roosevelts befriended Napoleon’s grandchildren, the children of Alexandre Walewski. Walewski not only looked a lot like Napoleon, but apparently had a very similar voice.

Source: Geoffrey C. Ward, Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, Pg. 41

To me, there’s something so nice about Napoleon’s grandbabies playing in the wildflowers & his son pleasantly eating cherries and milk 🥹

Lynchburg, VA c.1878

The William Carroll House was built by architect R.C. Burkholder. Wealthy Lynchburg tobacconist John W. Carroll had this house built for his son, William.

📸 Yours Truly

"Infatuated with herself, always classically draped, her magnificent hair her only coiffure, she was strange in her personality and her ways. She would appear at gatherings like a goddess descending from the clouds. At her request, her husband would lead her to a quiet corner of the room where she would allow people to admire her as if she were a shrine; absent amid the crowd, she would meet with glacial calm the indiscreet stares of her admirers (...)”

General Fleury on Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione

Pink Striped Evening Dress, ca. 1865, French.

Designed by Mme Roger

MFA Boston.

Sous l’Empire des crinolines   Musée Galliera

Catherine Join-Diéterle,  Françoise Tétart-Vittu

Paris Musées, Paris 2008, 212 pages, Relié, 180 ill.couleurs, 17,5 x 24,5 cm, ISBN : 978-2-7596-0069-4

euro 80,00

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Catalogue publié à l'occasion de l'exposition "Sous l'empire des crinolines" présentée au Palais Galliera du 26 novembre 2008 au 26 avril 2009, Editeur Paris Musées. Symbole du Second Empire, la crinoline apparaît dès 1830 avec l’utilisation de jupons en crin qui font gonfler les jupes. Ils seront remplacés en 1856 par la fameuse cage à fanons de baleine, puis substitués par une armature métallique. Le succès de cette dernière sera immédiat : en France, 5 millions sont confectionnés en 1860. Sa forme évolue également. D’abord ronde, elle est ensuite plate devant et se projette loin vers l’arrière. Puis, à partir de 1867, une «demi crinoline», plus étroite, s’impose. Souvent comparée aux coupoles en métal et en verre la crinoline témoigne de la passion de l’époque pour le volume. Cependant, ce qui frappe surtout c’est l’exubérance de la silhouette, l’emploi récurrent des volants, l’accumulation des étoffes et des ornements, l’éclectisme des décors où se mêlent historicisme et orientalisme, où le bleu vif côtoie le rose pastel. Mais au delà du port de la crinoline, de la rapidité des transformations de la silhouette, de la diversité des sources d’inspiration, la mode du Second Empire reflète les changements survenus en France depuis le début du siècle. Cet ouvrage richement illustré, témoigne de cette période très particulière dans l’histoire de la mode française. Conçu autour de trois grands thèmes (la fête à la ville et à la cour ; la modernisation ; la commercialisation) il aborde l’ensemble des aspects propres à la crinoline et à son époque. Mais il nous montre également à quel point elle fascine encore les créateurs. Regardons pour cela comment Jean-Paul Gaultier ou John Galliano (pour Dior) l’interprètent dans leurs collections automnes-hivers 2008-2009.

12/05/23

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Outdoor carousel, poss. around Champs-Élysées, Paris. ca. 1860s. via eBay.

Dress with Day & Evening Bodices

1869

France

The MET (Accession Number: C.I.40.76.1a–d)

Carte de visite of a sleekly polished gentleman, backstamped Angers, France c. 1860s

For what it’s worth, Cat-Lon tried his best. It wasn’t enough, but he gave it his all, and now he has nothing.

Dragoon of the 6e regiment, French cavalry, 1854

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