COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
MMA_.CI58.13.6ab
AMICA Library Year:
2000
Object Type:
Costume and Jewelry
Creator Name:
Balenciaga, Cristobal
Creator Nationality:
European; Iberian; Spanish
Creator Role:
Designer
Creator Dates/Places:
Spanish, 1895-1972
Creator Name-CRT:
Designed by Cristobal Balenciaga
Title:
Ball gown
Title Type:
Object name
View:
Full View
Creation Date:
autumn/winter 1948
Creation Start Date:
1948
Creation End Date:
1948
Materials and Techniques:
silk, crinoline, steel
Classification Term:
Main dress-Womenswear
Dimensions:
L. at center back 43 1/2 in. (110.5 cm)
AMICA Contributor:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location:
New York, New York, USA
ID Number:
CI 58.13.6ab
Credit Line:
Gift of Lisa and Jody Greene, in memory of their loving mother, Ethel S. Greene, 1958
Context:
Keenly historicist, Balenciaga invented a fantasy of eighteenth-century court dress, knowing that Marie-Antoinette favored overdresses with swags anchored by roses. Sustained by wide panniers also appropriated from eighteenth-century fashion, Balenciaga renewed the Rococo rose for the 1940s and 1950s.
Related Image Identifier Link:
MMA_.ci.58.13.6ab.R.tif
