Designed by Caroline Reboux / Wrap / 1920s

This image is one of over 108,000 from the AMICA Library (formerly The Art Museum Image Consortium Library- The AMICO Library™), a growing online collection of high-quality, digital art images from over 20 museums around the world. www.davidrumsey.com/amica offers subscriptions to this collection, the finest art image database available on the internet. EVERY image has full curatorial text and can be studied in depth by zooming into the smallest details from within the Image Workspace.

Preview the AMICA Library™ Public Collection in Luna Browser Now

Cultures and time periods represented range from contemporary art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works.
Types of works include paintings, drawings, watercolors, sculptures, costumes, jewelry, furniture, prints, photographs, textiles, decorative art, books and manuscripts.

Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com .

Creator Name: Reboux, Caroline
Creator Nationality: European; French
Creator Role: Designer
Creator Dates/Places: French, 1835 - 1927
Creator Name-CRT: Designed by Caroline Reboux
Title: Wrap
Title Type: Object name
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1920
Creation End Date: 1929
Creation Date: 1920s
Object Type: Costume and Jewelry
Classification Term: Outerwear-Womenswear
Materials and Techniques: silk, amber
Dimensions: L. at center front 47 in. (119.5 cm)
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: CI 52.5.2
Credit Line: Gift of Miss Isabel Shults, 1952
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/
Context:

Giant paratriangles of color form a cape with deliberate historical references. Multicolored capes began during or before the time of Old Testament Joseph; Reboux's color is purposely constrained. She achieved the crucial shape of the triangle - Brancusi's 'Bird in Space' is also a triangle - for the cape on the body. Laid flat, the cape is of a slightly irregular and ungainly shape, but Reboux has us direct our reading to the configuration on the body and not on the plane.

AMICA ID: MMA_.CI52.5.2
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder.