Vintage Le Moniteur De La Mode 1851 French Fashion Ladies Print Hand Tinted
Artist/Publisher: Le Moniteur de la Mode, influential nineteenth-century French fashion journal; original 1851 hand-tinted lithographic fashion plate featuring two elegant women in sumptuous gowns.
Type: mid-nineteenth-century illustration art print on paper, produced as a fashion plate for a Parisian ladies' magazine and now presented in a modern blue mat, unframed.
Subject: fashionable women in a refined interior, wearing crinoline dresses with rich trims and accessories, accompanied by small dogs near the hem of the skirts.
Text: lower margin printed with the title "Le Moniteur de la Mode" and the date "1851" beneath the image.
Style: figurative and illustration art with fine line work and soft hand-applied color, characteristic of mid-Victorian French fashion imagery.
Material and size: ink lithograph on paper with hand tinting in blue and green tones, displayed in a medium-size mat measuring approximately 13 inches high by 11 inches wide overall.
Culture/Region: French fashion culture of the 1850s, reflecting Paris couture and dressmaking trends of the period.
Ideal for collectors of antique fashion prints, Victorian illustration art, or adding nineteenth-century French style to dressing room, boutique, or gallery-wall decor.
Keywords: Le Moniteur de la Mode 1851 print, antique French fashion plate, hand tinted Victorian ladies illustration, Parisian costume art.