- Title Information
- Title
- Vigier's baths
- Subtitle
- Year V (1797)
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Courboin, François
- Name Part:
Date
- 1865-1926
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- illustrator
- Genre
- color wood engravings
- Origin Information
- Place
- Place Term:
Code (MARC Country Code)
- enk
- Place Term:
Text
- London
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Date Issued
- 1898
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 colored plate ; 15 x 10 cm.
- Abstract
- This plate shows a woman descending a staircase in front of the Bains Vigier or the Pavillon des Flore in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. Her dress is typical of the early 19th century. She wears a high-waisted, loose and flowing white dress made of light material. These dresses were made to imitate the style of classical Greece. However, France was much colder than ancient Greece and this woman wears a three quarters length overdress, worn like a shawl over the looser and lighter white robe. This woman is depicted in front of a building reading 'Thermes' where several similarly dressed ladies mill about. Dating back to ancient Greece and Rome, thermal baths and other spa treatments became fashionable in the late 18th century in England and moved throughout Europe, especially among the elite. Spas were often constructed on top of a natural source of water, which was said to have medicinal qualities specific to various ailments.
- Note:
source identifier
(href="http://www.athaneum.ch/thermes.htm")
- Note:
source identifier
(href="http://www.gallery.sjsu.edu/paris/fashion")
- Note:
source identifier
- Hillairet, Jacques. Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris. Paris : Editions de Minuit, 1961
- Identifier:
Local
(displayLabel="Hay Star Call No.")
- 1-SIZE GT887 .U8 1898
- Identifier:
METSID
- 1145808283420409
- Related Item:
Host
(displayLabel="Published in:")
- Title Information
- Title
- Fashion in Paris
- Subtitle
- the various phases of feminine taste and aesthetics from 1797 to 1897
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Uzanne, Octave
- Name Part:
Date
- 1852-1931
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- creator
- Origin Information
- Place
- Place Term:
Code (MARC Geographic Area Code)
- enk
- Place Term:
Text
- London
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Date Issued
- 1848
- Physical Description
- Extent
- Plate 2
- Subject
- Topic
- Baths
- hierarchicalGeographic
- country
- France
- city
- Paris
- Subject
- Topic
- Fashion
- hierarchicalGeographic
- country
- France
- city
- Paris
- Subject
- Topic
- Women
- hierarchicalGeographic
- country
- France
- city
- Paris
- Subject
(displayLabel="Thematic Category")
- Topic
- Art
- Topic
- Prints
- Subject
(displayLabel="Thematic Category")
- Topic
- Social Life
- Topic
- Classes
- Subject
(displayLabel="Thematic Category")
- Topic
- Social Life
- Topic
- Entertainment
- Subject
(displayLabel="Thematic Category")
- Topic
- Social Life
- Topic
- Gender studies
- Subject
(displayLabel="Thematic Category")
- Topic
- Art
- Topic
- Fashion
- Subject
(displayLabel="Historical Period")
- Topic
- 1792-1804 (The First Republic)
- Related Item:
Host
(displayLabel="Collection:")
- Title Information
- Title
- Paris Capital of the 19th Century
- Identifier:
COLID
- 6
- Identifier:
URI
- http://dl.lib.brown.edu/paris