BALENCIAGA, Paris (couture house), Cristóbal BALENCIAGA (designer)

Evening dress
1961 {autumn-winter 1961–62}

Tender are the stairs to heaven Yayoi KUSAMA Big nude I Helmut NEWTON The bent tree Camille COROT Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara Dosso DOSSI; Battista DOSSI (attributed to) The first cloud William Quiller ORCHARDSON Hero and Leander Nicolas RÉGNIER The temptation of Christ Ary SCHEFFER The defenestration, 1618 Václav BROŽÍK Nude woman reading Robert DELAUNAY Rembrandt REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn; REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn (studio of) Falls of Schaffhausen (Val d’Aosta) J. M. W. TURNER The melon Édouard MANET Queen Esther Edwin LONG A lion attacking a horse George STUBBS The victory of faith St George HARE Teacup and saucer MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer) (Anna Romana Wright reading by candlelight) Joseph WRIGHT of Derby Pair of glass coolers SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FACTORY, Saint-Cloud (manufacturer) The second marriage David HOCKNEY Milton, when a youth Henry FUSELI Coffee pot GEORG JENSEN SØLVSMEDIE, Copenhagen (manufacturer); Henning KOPPEL (designer) A monk with a book TITIAN Chair Carlo BUGATTI Gasometers at Clichy Paul SIGNAC Lady Rous née Charlotte Maria Whittaker, second wife of the 6th Baronet, later, Earl of Stradbroke William BEECHEY The princess out of school Edward Robert HUGHES Scaramouche and Columbine MEISSEN PORCELAIN FACTORY, Meissen (manufacturer); Johann Joachim KÄNDLER (modeller) Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q EGYPT, el-Amarna Mary, Lady Vere William LARKIN Cabinet W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator)