Ensemble

Ensemble

Unknown artist

Details

Medium
silk
Department
Costume Institute
Holding institution
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
License
CC0-1.0
Credit
Gift of James R. Creel IV and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence G. Creel, 1992

Art Genome Taxonomy

7 tags

Artistic Disciplines

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art classifies the work as an ensemble in the Costume Institute, and the image shows a coordinated outfit including a dress, bonnet, gloves, and additional accessories.

Subject Matter

  • Related to Fashion Both · 99%

    The catalog identifies the object as an ensemble, while the image directly presents a complete historical outfit with coordinated dress elements and accessories.

Visual Qualities

  • Patterns Visual · 99%

    Floral motifs, repeated horizontal green stripes, decorative bands, and tiered trim recur across the bodice, sleeves, and skirt.

  • Highly Ornamented Visual · 98%

    The ensemble combines patterned textile, lace collar and cuffs, ribbons, layered ruffles, dark edging, a decorated bonnet, gloves, and a tasselled accessory.

  • Symmetrical Visual · 90%

    The frontal display produces a largely symmetrical arrangement, with balanced sleeves and a centered bodice opening above the broad skirt.

Time Periods

  • 19th Century Art Metadata · 99%

    The catalog dates the ensemble to circa 1855, within the nineteenth century.

Textiles

  • Use of Fabric Both · 99%

    The museum lists silk as the medium, and the image visibly shows an extensive fabric-based construction of bodice, sleeves, skirt, bonnet, ribbons, and gloves.

Source & rights

Unknown artist. Ensemble. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.