Ensemble
Details
- Palette
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- Origin
- probably French
- Department
- Costume Institute
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Isabel Shults Fund, 2004
Art Genome Taxonomy
10 tags
Artistic Disciplines
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Fashion Design and Wearable Art Both · 99%
The image clearly presents a coordinated historical clothing ensemble, and the museum classifies the work as an ensemble in the Costume Institute.
Subject Matter
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Related to Fashion Both · 99%
The work consists entirely of coordinated garments and accessories presented as dress rather than as a conventional figure or narrative scene.
Visual Qualities
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Highly Ornamented Visual · 99%
The coat and underlying garments are densely embellished with repeated metallic borders, scrolling motifs, zigzags, and decorative buttons.
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Patterns Visual · 98%
Repeated scrolls, fan-like forms, zigzag bands, and patterned textile panels organize the visible surfaces of the ensemble.
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Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 94%
The saturated red outer coat provides a vivid dominant color against the white neckwear and cuffs and the darker central garments.
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Symmetrical Visual · 95%
The frontal display emphasizes strong bilateral symmetry in the coat opening, embroidered borders, sleeves, cuffs, and central garment panels.
Time Periods
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18th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The museum dates the ensemble to circa 1730, within the eighteenth century.
Geographic Regions
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French Art Metadata · 78%
The catalog identifies the place of origin as probably French, so this regional tag is qualified rather than certain.
Textiles
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Use of Fabric Both · 99%
The image visibly shows multiple textile garments, while the catalog specifies wool and silk as materials.
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Embroidery Both · 88%
The garments display extensive stitched or applied metallic ornament along the coat edges, sleeves, cuffs, and central panels; the catalog specifies metallic thread.
Source & rights
Unknown artist. Ensemble. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.