BREECHES
Medium
Mauve, embroidered with gold bullion, decorative frogging, spangles, red & opaque beading
Measurements
L 88.9 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mr Kenneth Myer, 1973
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Exhibition
Survey 15: Relics and Rituals
Essay
Collection care and performance art at the NGV
Essay
Jean Ipoustéguy’s Death of the father at the NGV: marble, metal and lots of ink
Essay
Sacred geometry: The art and life of Reko Rennie
Essay
Exploring frames and framing in late 19th century Melbourne through the transcription of Thallon’s ledger 1888/89–1903
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Breakfast With Bonnard
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Exquisite Corpse
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Egyptian Enigma
Video
The Picasso Century | Online tour
Video
Session one: Queer People Archiving Their Histories
Video
Session two: The Legacy of David McDiarmid
Video
Session three: HIV/AIDS Activism, Then and Now
Video
Session four: Landmark LGBTQ+ Exhibitions in Australia
Video
Virtual Curator Tour | Goya
Video
NGVWA Presents ‘Art of Tea’
Video
Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series Keynote: Redesigning Artificial Intelligence – From Australia Out
Video
Salon et Lumière | A Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series presentation
Video
TIWI | Exhibition video tour
Learning Resource
Digital creatives: Sea life – NGV Triennial 2020
Video
Drop-by Drawing with Juan Ford | An archer
Explore the collection
Portrait group: The singer Farinelli and friends
Jacopo AMIGONI
Johann Friedrich Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, plaque
VOLKSTEDT PORCELAIN FACTORY, Volkstedt (manufacturer)
Armchair, from the Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna
Otto WAGNER (designer); GEBRÜDER THONET, Vienna (manufacturer)
Look 15, dress
BALENCIAGA, Paris (fashion house); Nicolas GHESQUIÈRE (designer)
Shoe covers
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Clock garniture
MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer); Marc-Louis-Emmanuel SOLON (decorator)
Weeping woman
Pablo PICASSO
Cap
CHRISTIAN DIOR, Paris (fashion house); John GALLIANO (designer); Stephen JONES (milliner)
Dress
MOSCHINO, Milan (fashion house); Franco MOSCHINO (designer)
Untitled (Red)
Mark ROTHKO
DAMASK
Gates of Venice (View of the Venetian lagoon with the Tower of Marghera)
Francesco GUARDI
Portrait of an old lady
Françoise DUPARC
Great dancing pair
Erich HECKEL
Mary, Lady Vere
William LARKIN
Portrait of a gentleman
Louis TOCQUÉ
Clouds
John CONSTABLE
Cabinet
W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator)
Scaramouche and Columbine
MEISSEN PORCELAIN FACTORY, Meissen (manufacturer); Johann Joachim KÄNDLER (modeller)
BROOCH
Anguish
August Friedrich Albrecht SCHENCK
Dress
JULIEN MACDONALD, London (fashion house); Julien MacDONALD (designer)
Writing cabinet
Rene DUBOIS
Mother and child
Cornelis de VOS
The Mayor's Cup
William KERR
Dress
STEPHEN SPROUSE, New York (fashion house); Stephen SPROUSE (designer)
Gasometers at Clichy
Paul SIGNAC
The first cloud
William Quiller ORCHARDSON
The skittle players
David TENIERS II
Dunstanburgh Castle, north-east coast of Northumberland, sunrise after a squally night
J. M. W. TURNER