• (FRANCE)

Textile
18th century

Essay

Marking Time: Indigenous Art from the NGV

Look 15, dress BALENCIAGA, Paris (fashion house); Nicolas GHESQUIÈRE (designer) Armchair, from the Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna Otto WAGNER (designer); GEBRÜDER THONET, Vienna (manufacturer) Evening jumpsuit HALSTON, New York (fashion house); HALSTON (designer) Forest and sun Max ERNST Frederick van Velthuysen and his wife, Josina Thomas de KEYSER Hero and Leander Nicolas RÉGNIER Teacup and saucer MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer) Jacket ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, London (fashion house); Sarah BURTON (designer) Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara Dosso DOSSI; Battista DOSSI (attributed to) Chacmool Tarascan, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, West Mexico DAMASK Boots ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, London (fashion house); Alexander McQUEEN (designer); Sarah BURTON (designer) Skirt ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, London (fashion house); Alexander McQUEEN (designer) Ulysses and the Sirens John William WATERHOUSE CAP Baronne Madeleine Deslandes Edward BURNE-JONES Dress ENGLAND Dress JULIEN MACDONALD, London (fashion house); Julien MacDONALD (designer) FRAGMENT Throne Carlo BUGATTI Clouds John CONSTABLE Cabinet W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator) SEAT Pregnancy ensemble (ENGLAND) The Crossing of the Red Sea Nicolas POUSSIN The first cloud William Quiller ORCHARDSON Dress MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA, Paris (fashion house); Martin MARGIELA (designer) Dunstanburgh Castle, north-east coast of Northumberland, sunrise after a squally night J. M. W. TURNER (Anna Romana Wright reading by candlelight) Joseph WRIGHT of Derby BROOCH