Old Rags

Shoes, 1740’s, Museum Weißenfels

Check out the embroidery on the heels:

Shoes, ca 1890, Museum Weißenfels

These may or may not be fetish shoes.  If they weren’t fetish shoes, they were a rare example of a prize work pair.

Day dress, ca 1802 England, the Bowes Museum

Portrait of Mrs Claus in Bridal Dress by Emile Claus, 1886 the Netherlands, Musea Oost-Vlaanderen in Evolutie

Empress Elizabeth of Austria in court dress, ca 1875

Catarina de Bragança by Dirk Stoop, ca 1660-61 Portugal (?), National Portrait Gallery, London

Embarquement de la Duchesse d’Angoulême à Pauillac by Antoine-Jean Gros, 1819 France, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

This depicts “Madame Royale” Marie Thérèse Charlotte of France, the only surviving child of Marie-Antoinette and King Louis XVI.  I’m not sure what this exact event is supposed to be, but it has something to do with the One Hundred Days (during which Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo.)

Portrait of Mme de Senonnes by Jean-Auguste Ingres, 1814 France, Musee des Beaux-Arts Nantes

Lady Alston by Thomas Gainsborough, 18th century, the Louvre

Portrait of Mrs Howe nee Deering by Alfred Stevens, mid-1890’s