Dress
Details
- Palette
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- Medium
- silk, mother-of-pearl
- Origin
- American
- Department
- Costume Institute
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Pierrepont Beckwith, 1969
Art Genome Taxonomy
7 tags
Artistic Disciplines
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Fashion Design and Wearable Art Both · 99%
The image clearly shows a dress, and the museum catalog classifies the object as a dress in the Costume Institute.
Visual Qualities
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Shiny/Glossy Visual · 94%
The pale textile produces pronounced highlights and reflective shifts across the bodice, sleeves, folds, and skirt.
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Highly Ornamented Visual · 91%
Repeated dark edging, applied or braided trim, closures, sleeve decoration, and small hanging circular ornaments create an elaborately decorated surface.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 98%
The catalog dates the dress to 1860–65, placing it within nineteenth-century art.
Geographic Regions
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American Art Metadata · 96%
The catalog gives the place of origin as American.
Materials
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Natural Fibers Metadata · 90%
The catalog identifies silk as one of the materials; silk is a natural fiber.
Textiles
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Use of Fabric Both · 98%
The garment visibly consists extensively of fabric, and the catalog identifies silk as a material.
Source & rights
Unknown artist. Dress. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.