Detail View: The AMICA Library: Ball gown
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AMICA ID:
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MMA_.CI58.13.6ab
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AMICA Library Year:
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2000
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Object Type:
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Costume and Jewelry
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Creator Name:
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Balenciaga, Cristobal
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Creator Nationality:
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European; Iberian; Spanish
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Creator Role:
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Designer
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Creator Dates/Places:
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Spanish, 1895-1972
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Designed by Cristobal Balenciaga
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Title:
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Ball gown
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Title Type:
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Object name
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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autumn/winter 1948
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Creation Start Date:
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1948
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Creation End Date:
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1948
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Materials and Techniques:
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silk, crinoline, steel
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Classification Term:
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Main dress-Womenswear
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Dimensions:
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L. at center back 43 1/2 in. (110.5 cm)
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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New York, New York, USA
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ID Number:
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CI 58.13.6ab
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Lisa and Jody Greene, in memory of their loving mother, Ethel S. Greene, 1958
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Rights:
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Context:
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Keenly historicist, Balenciaga invented a fantasy of eighteenth-century court dress, knowing that Marie-Antoinette favored overdresses with swags anchored by roses. Sustained by wide panniers also appropriated from eighteenth-century fashion, Balenciaga renewed the Rococo rose for the 1940s and 1950s. |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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MMA_.ci.58.13.6ab.R.tif
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