Old Rags

books0977:

A lady in a white dress and shawl before a Viennese landscape (19th century). Workshop of Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian, Romantic, 1793–1865).  Oil on canvas.

Waldmüller was a representative Biedermeier painter. The Biedermeier period in art was a transition between Neoclassicism and Romanticism as it was interpreted by the bourgeoisie. The rising middle class’s cultural interests in books, writing, dance, and poetry readings were subject matter for Biedermeier painting, which was either genre or historical and most often sentimentally treated.

game-of-style:

Selyse Baratheon - Christian Lacroix Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 1995

fripperiesandfobs:

oldrags:

March ballgowns, 1839 US, Godey’s Lady’s Book

1839? Maybe 1849.

It does seem wrong, doesn’t it?  The art style doesn’t even match.  The source had it labelled as 1839, but that could have been an error.  I’ll check around and see if I can find the actual date.