back to overview
 


Clothing and Textiles


Clothing and Textiles



4,626 photos
Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing the city of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615), Momoyama Period. Schloss Eggenberg, Eggenberg Castle Museum, Graz, Austria. Panel 8 - People walking towards the bridge leading to the Byodoin Temple complex. A commercial boat on the river Yodo, cherry trees in bloom. Cherry blossoms are highly symbolic in Japan, their great beauty and early end reminiscent of man's life span. Toyotomi Hideyoshi once held a Cherry Blossom Viewing Party attended by over 1300 women.
#33030434

Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing t...

Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing the cityscape of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615) in the Momoyama Period. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. Panel 8:bridge leading to the Phoenix Hall (completed 1053) in the Byodoin Temple complex.
#33030435

Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing t...

Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing the cityscape of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615) in the Momoyama Period. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. A traditional 8-panel folding screen or byobu, it measures 182 cm (hight) and 480 cms (length). The screen was bought by prince Johann Seyfried von Eggenberg from Dutch merchants around 1660. It was dismanteld in the town-house of the family in Graz, Styria, around 1754 and the panels were brought to the country seat of Eggenberg, when the "Piano Nobile" was renovated. The paintings were individually embedded into the walls of the "Indian Room", Indian Rooms having become highly fashionable in the 18th century,. They were surrounded by "Chinoiseries" from a local painter. The panels are to be read from right bottom to left top.
#33030436

Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing t...

Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing the cityscape of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615) in the Momoyama Period. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. A traditional 8-panel folding screen or byobu, it measures 182 cm (hight) and 480 cms (length). The screen was bought by prince Johann Seyfried von Eggenberg from Dutch merchants around 1660. It was dismanteld in the town-house of the family in Graz, Styria, around 1754 and the panels were brought to the country seat of Eggenberg, when the "Piano Nobile" was renovated. The paintings were individually embedded into the walls of the "Indian Room", Indian Rooms having become highly fashionable in the 18th century,. They were surrounded by "Chinoiseries" from a local painter. The panels are to be read from right bottom to left top.
#33030437

Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing t...

Mercure attachant ses talonnieres - Mercury attaching his winged sandals, Paris,1753. Lead statue,187 x 108 cm x 106 cm RF 3023
#39150124

Mercure attachant ses talonnieres - Mercury attaching his winged sandals, Paris...

Egyptienne au Naos - Egyptian woman with naos, ca.1780. Terracotta,48 x 19 x 13 cm RF 2548
#39150129

Egyptienne au Naos - Egyptian woman with naos, ca.1780....

Le peuple faisant fermer l'Opera,le 12 juillet 1789 - The people demand the closing of the operahouse, July 12,1789.
#391502 2

Le peuple faisant fermer l'Opera,le 12 juillet 1789 - The people demand the cl...

Pillage de la maison de St.Lazare,le lundi 13 Juillet 1789 - In their search for arms,the Parisian population storms and ransacks the House St.Lazare,July 13,1789.
#391502 3

Pillage de la maison de St.Lazare,le lundi 13 Juillet 1789 - In the...

Marie-Antoinette on horseback, 1777. Plume,pierre noire,lavis gris,encre noire,pencil 15,1 x 11,6 cm 52277 recto fol.67
#39150217

Marie-Antoinette on horseback, 1777. Plume,pierre noire,lavis gris,encre noire,...

Napoleon I recoit a Finkenstein Riza Bey,ambassadeur de Perse,le 27 avril 1807. Napoleon I recieves Reza Bey,ambassador of Persia, in Finkenstein, april 27,1807.
#39150231

Napoleon I recoit a Finkenstein Riza Bey,ambassadeur de Perse,le 27 avril 180...

Chasse au faucon en Algerie - Hunting with falcons in Algeria, 1862 Canvas, 45 x 85,5 cm RF 1700
#39150259

Chasse au faucon en Algerie - Hunting with falcons in Algeria, 1862 Canvas, 45...

Mendiant comptant sa recette - A beggar counting his take, 1833 Canvas, 41 x 32,5 cm RF 1377
#39150262

Mendiant comptant sa recette - A beggar counting his take, 1833 Canvas, 41 x 3...