Ensemble

Thurn

ca. 1910 · wool, silk, fur, metal · Costume Institute

Thurn was a respected New York dressmaking firm during the Belle Époque which collaborated with French couturiers. This is a beautiful ensemble that shows the complexity of characteristics of the period, seen in the embroidery on the velvet of the dress and the embroidery on the wool of the coat.

Artist

Thurn

Date

ca. 1910

Medium

wool, silk, fur, metal

Culture

American

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Robert G. Olmsted and Constable MacCracken, 1969