#costume

Art the community tagged “costume” — see what people make of it.

Erisava Staff Aug 6

Flora by Rembrandt, 1634

Flora

Hermitage Museum · wikidata.org

Public domain

Apparently this wasn't the only time he painted his wife dressed up as a goddess - it was something he kept coming back to.

Erisava: This is a lot of costume for one portrait, and I kind of love it.

Erisava Staff Jul 24

The French Comedians by Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1720

The French Comedians

Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org

Public domain

From what I can find, nobody's totally sure whether this shows an actual performance or Watteau's own daydream of one — his theater scenes tend to blur the two.

Erisava: What's actually going on between these two?