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Dangerous liaisons

fashion and furniture in the eighteenth century

By Koda, Harold & Bolton, Andrew & Hellman, Mimi

Publishers Summary:
"The beautifully photographed and handsomely reproduced images on the following pages bring amorous adventures to life. The vignettes, staged for the widely praised exhibition "Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the 18th Century," held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2004, feature eighteenth-century costumes in the Museum's spectacular French period rooms, The Wrightsman Galleries. The artfully composed scenes include: a woman sitting for her portrait while her husband flirts with her friend; a man being granted an audience with a woman in a peignoir who is having her hair dressed; a vendor embracing the wife of an old man, his back turned, examining a table for sale; a girl receiving more than a harp lesson from her teacher, while her oblivious chaperone reads an erotic novel; a woman giving up her garter as a memento of a very private dinner. The entertaining and knowledgeable texts set the scenes perfectly."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN

978-0-30010-714-2

Publisher

New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; c2006.