Evening robe

Unknown

1890s · silk, fur · Costume Institute

An unusual chiselŽ velvet with scrolling floral and raised foliate pattern is composed of cut and uncut loops of silk that evoke late Renaissance meanders. Yet its indisputable historical resonance is also compatible with the emerging Art Nouveau of a like abstraction of the flower within a curvilinear horror vacui.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1890s

Medium

silk, fur

Culture

probably French

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Gift of Miss Cornelia Van Aukin Chapin, 1953