Dress

Unknown

1810–20 · linen · Costume Institute

"There is only one way for the moderns to become great and perhaps unequalled: by imitating the Ancients," declared Johann Joachim Winckelmann, prophet and propagandist for Neoclassicism. New democracies, with their idealism, were vehemently and visibly expressed in quotidian form in statuary-emulating dress.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1810–20

Medium

linen

Culture

American

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. Frank O. Bowman, 1964