- Title: Le tricolore
- Date Created/Published: Paris : Imp. E. Hamelin rue Fontaine au roi 59, 1874.
- Medium: 1 print : lithograph, color.
- Summary: Print shows the French “Le Tricolore” balloon in the colors of the French flag with three passengers, possibly Jules Duruof, his wife, and another man, standing in the basket during an ascension in Paris, June 6, 1874.
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Stilllifequickheart: Unknown (French) ~ Fruit Basket and Flowers; 19th century
Dress by Mon Vignon, ca 1869-70 France
Many of you have probably seen this dress but I wanted to add an interesting little fact about it that you may not know.
What color would you say the fabric is? Purple? Actually, it’s mauve as it was meant to look. The first synthetic dye, mauveine, was discovered by accident in 1856 when an 18-year-old student was trying to find a cure for malaria. Being the first of its kind, there were problems with the dye that caused the color to fade relatively quickly. This is why our modern idea of the color mauve is sort of a faded grayish-purple. Examples that have faded little do exist, though, as seen here.
stilllifequickheart: 19th c Pancrae Bessa (French, 1772->1834) ~ Mauve Chrysanthemum and a Red Lychnis Chalcedonica
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missfolly: 1879 Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904) ~ Hydrangias, Cloves and Two Pots of Pansies
stilllifequickheart: 1865-70 Antoine Vollon (French, 1833-1900) ~ Vase of Mixed Flowers with Plums
stilllifequickheart: 19th century, Majorie Gilbert ~ Flowers
