Doublet
Details
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- Medium
- silk
- Origin
- French
- Department
- Costume Institute
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- The Costume Institute Fund, in memory of Polaire Weissman, 1989
Art Genome Taxonomy
10 tags
Artistic Disciplines
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Fashion Design and Wearable Art Both · 99%
The image clearly shows a constructed historical garment, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art classifies the object as a doublet in the Costume Institute.
Visual Qualities
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Symmetrical Visual · 98%
The front-facing garment is organized around a central closure, with closely mirrored sleeves, trim, and front panels.
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Patterns Visual · 98%
Repeated floral and foliate motifs cover the torso and sleeves, and parallel decorative bands recur across the garment.
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Dense Composition Visual · 95%
The surface is densely occupied by floral ornament, vertical bands, gathered fabric, sleeve divisions, and layered edging.
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Highly Ornamented Visual · 97%
Extensive floral decoration, braid-like edging, covered fastenings, and elaborate sleeve construction give the garment a richly embellished appearance.
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Earth Tones Visual · 88%
The visible palette is dominated by cream, tan, ocher, muted green, dusty rose, and brown-gold tones.
Time Periods
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17th Century Art Metadata · 98%
The catalog dates the doublet to the early 1620s, placing it in the seventeenth century.
Geographic Regions
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French Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog gives French as the place of origin.
Textiles
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Embroidery Visual · 93%
The image shows raised, thread-like floral and foliate ornament distributed across the textile surface, consistent with embroidery.
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Use of Fabric Metadata · 99%
The museum catalog identifies the medium as silk and the object as a textile garment.
Source & rights
Unknown artist. Doublet. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.