Galerie des modes et costumes français, dessinés d'après nature, 1778-1787;
A 1912 Paris reprint by Paul Cornu of Galerie des modes et costumes français, a late eighteenth-century series of hand-coloured fashion plates drawn from life for a French readership of dress enthusiasts. The four pictures show women in 1780s court dress, with tall powdered hairstyles, feathered headdresses, silk gowns in green, yellow and pink, and fur-trimmed robes, and a designer could take their saturated palette, layered trims and sculptural hair as period colour references.










