Genre
Costume & Fashion
Clothing dates a painting and announces its sitter. The slashed silks of the Renaissance, the lace collars of the Dutch Golden Age, and the muslins of the Regency are each a coded record of rank and decade, and painters lavished as much craft on a sleeve as on a face.
Key artists
Works
Venus and Cupid
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son
The Organ Rehearsal
Saint George and the Dragon
Mrs. Noah Smith and Her Children
Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Pandora
The Saithwaite Family
The New Bonnet
The Wife of Hasdrubal and Her Children
Hugo Reisinger
Two Women at a Window
Garden at Sainte-Adresse
Emma Homan
Lady Williams and Child
The Daughters of Catulle Mendès
The Holy Family
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils
Portrait of a Woman
Flora
The Dead Christ with Angels
Femme Lisant
Madame Georges Charpentier and her Children
Susanna Truax
Landscape with Bathsheba
Saint Lucy
Saint Catherine
Matilda Stoughton de Jaudenes
William II, Prince of Orange, and his Bride, Mary Stuart
1807, Friedland
A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant
Young Lady in 1866
Virgin and Child with Four Angels
L'Arlésienne
Tea
Little Girl in a Blue Armchair
Molly Wales Fobes
Tilla Durieux
Syndics of the Drapers' Guild
Five O'Clock Tea
The Origin of the Milky Way
Madonna of Humility (Madonna dell'Umiltà)
Thérèse Louise de Sureda
Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie
The Siesta
Bathsheba at her bath
La Gloria
Mary Magdalene
Self portrait
Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly
Mrs. Samuel Cutts
Portrait of a Gentleman with a Tall Hat and Gloves
A Young Woman and a Cavalier
Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners
The Death of Cleopatra
The Virgin and Child
Shepherdess with a Flock of Sheep
Danaë
Paradiesgärtlein
Trappers
Portrait of a Young Girl
Young Man and Woman in an Inn
Mrs. Thomas Brewster Coolidge
Mary Birch
Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848)
The suicide of Lucretia
The Death of Cleopatra
Judith at the Banquet of Holofernes
The Defense of Cadiz Against the English
Madonna of Humility
Morning Ride on the Beach
Young Woman Knitting
Woman Playing a Guitar
Queen Victoria
View of the Garden of the Villa Medici
Peasants Smoking in an Inn
Portrait of a Lady
Portrait of Empress Eugénie de Montijo
Spring: Margot Standing in a Garden (Fillette dans un jardin)
Portrait of a Lady
Janet Halleck Drake
Noli me tangere
Portrait of a Man in a Tall Hat
The Philosopher
Man with a Sheet of Music
Leda and the Swan
Queen Henrietta Maria
Washington's Triumphal Entry into New York
Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John
Eliza Champlin
Portrait of a Man with a Shell
Bella and Hanna. The Eldest Daughters of M. L. Nathanson
Portrait of a Man with a Breastplate and Plumed Hat
Virgin of the Rosary of Guápulo
Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat
Dance at Bougival
The Nut Gatherers
Vanitas still life
A Group of Danish Artists in Rome
Laura
Girl with a Fan
Mrs. Hugh Hammersley
Untitled
The Wyndham Sisters: Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant
The wine connoisseurs
The Masquerade Dress
The Pink Dress (Albertie-Marguerite Carré, later Madame Ferdinand-Henri Himmes, 1854–1935)
Julia Wainwright Robbins
Portrait of Maria Portinari
Portrait of a Dwarf
The penitent Mary Magdalene
Charles X (1757–1836), King of France, after Gérard
Georges de Miré
Interior of an inn with an old man amusing himself with the landlady and two men playing backgammon, known as 'Two kinds of games'
Still Life with Fish
Lady with Fan
Peasant Girl with a Straw Hat
Lady in White
Joris Vezeleer
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
The Surrender of Brea
Man with a Beard
Mrs. Huges
Spring
Portrait of a Man with a Black-Plumed Hat
Bearded Man with a Velvet Cap
Portrait of a Man with a High Hat
Portrait of a Young Man wrongly called Burgomaster Six
The Artist Painting a Cow in a Meadow
Lady in Blue
Boy with Blond Hair
L'Homme au chapeau de paille (Gustave Boyer in a Straw Hat)
The Adoration of the Magi
Lucretia
Portrait of Count Nikolay Guryev
Mythological portrait of Louis XIV and the royal family
The Duchess of Alba and la Beata
Whitewashing the Old House
La Mousmé
Hendrickje Stoffels by a Door
Isabella
Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood) and Her Daughter Rachel
Dwarf with a Dog, formerly denominated Antonio el Inglés
Garlanding the Statuette of Cupid
Infanta Margarita Teresa
Brothel Scene
The Regents of the Leper's house in Amsterdam in 1649
Benois Madonna
Head of an Girl from Civita d'Antino in Regional Dress (Catarinella")"
Saint John the Baptist and Saint Catherine Altar Piece
Portrait of a Woman
The Child's Bath
The Marchioness of Villafranca Painting her Husband
A Man Smoking His Pipe
Willem van Heythuysen posing with a sword
Niels Ryberg with his Son Johan Christian and his Daughter-in-Law Engelke, née Falbe
Leda and the Swan
Outside the Tavern
Adoration of the Magi
Country Feast
Workers on their Way Home
Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Chair
Portrait of Otto Marstrand's two daughters and their nanny
Flora
The Tulip Folly
Mater dolorosa
The Luncheon
Bathsheba at her bath
The judgement of Paris
The Triumph of Saint Hermenegildo
Saint Catherine
Half-figure of a woman with a beret
Promenade
Italian Boy
Seventeenth Century Lady
柴田是真筆籠・菅笠図|Flower Baskets and Farmer's Hat
La Kash-Ne
La Promenade
Grandma's Hearthstone
Bathsheba after the Bath
The Virgin and Child adored by Saint Louis, King of France
Charles II as a child
Las postrimerías de Fernando III el Santo
Charles IV, King of Spain
Sant'Ambrogio Altarpiece
Woman in the Garden
The Empress Marie-Louise watching over the sleep of the King of Rome
The Slave Market
Henriette of France as Flora
Saint Jerome in His Study
Portrait of Henriette Petersen, née Philipsen, Mrs Michael Christian Petersen
Peasants playing cards
Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius
The Queen of Etruria and her Children
Portrait of a Lady in White
The Return of the Dove to the Ark
Danae
Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine
Alfonso XI
Portrait of the artist with his family
Frequently asked questions
What is Costume & Fashion?
Costume & Fashion is a motif in painting. Clothing dates a painting and announces its sitter.
How many Costume & Fashion works does Artifact World Gallery have?
Artifact World Gallery holds 681 public-domain Costume & Fashion works, all free to view and download.
Who are the key Costume & Fashion artists?
Key Costume & Fashion artists in the collection include Titian, Paolo Veronese and Jean Baptiste Camille Corot.