NIGHTDRESS
1945
Medium
Short, black, lace, plain & permanently pleated nylon inserts on bodice, shoe string straps
Measurements
CB.62 cm Size 42
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mrs Margaret Price, 1980
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
SHOE
Cabinet
W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator)
The Banquet of Cleopatra
Giambattista TIEPOLO
Coffee pot
GEORG JENSEN SØLVSMEDIE, Copenhagen (manufacturer); Henning KOPPEL (designer)
Baronne Madeleine Deslandes
Edward BURNE-JONES
Beach dress
FRANCE
Two old men disputing
REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn
Look 15, dress
BALENCIAGA, Paris (fashion house); Nicolas GHESQUIÈRE (designer)
The finding of the True Cross
COLA dell'Amatrice
Chair
Carlo BUGATTI
Moses bringing down the Tables of the Law
John Rogers HERBERT
Mary, Lady Vere
William LARKIN
FRAGMENT
Dress
MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA, Paris (fashion house); Martin MARGIELA (designer)
Spouted pharmacy jar
ORAZIO POMPEI WORKSHOP, Castelli (manufacturer)
Throne
Carlo BUGATTI
Calvary
FLANDERS; Jan BRUEGHEL I (studio of)
Sampler
Margaret FOSTER
CAP
Scaramouche and Columbine
MEISSEN PORCELAIN FACTORY, Meissen (manufacturer); Johann Joachim KÄNDLER (modeller)
Pair of glass coolers
SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FACTORY, Saint-Cloud (manufacturer)
Great dancing pair
Erich HECKEL
SEAT
Chacmool
Tarascan, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, West Mexico
(Anna Romana Wright reading by candlelight)
Joseph WRIGHT of Derby
Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara
Dosso DOSSI; Battista DOSSI (attributed to)
Lady Rous née Charlotte Maria Whittaker, second wife of the 6th Baronet, later, Earl of Stradbroke
William BEECHEY
Portrait of an old lady
Françoise DUPARC
Jacket
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, London (fashion house); Sarah BURTON (designer)
Bonnet
FRANCE