Rijksmuseum
Figures à la Mode
Creator
Romeyn de HoogheDutch Golden Age painter, engraver, and sculptor (1645-1708) · 1645–1708
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- 1670 - 1685
- Medium
- paper
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Institution
- Rijksmuseum
- Object ID
- RP-P-1939-366
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In 1670s Netherlands, fashionable men wore breeches so full and decorated they barely seemed wearable. This etching by Romeyn de Hooghe shows exactly that, a towering figure swathed in braided rhinegrave breeches, a coat thick with buttons and ribbons, a vast lace collar, and a hat crowned with curling feathers. The series "Figures à la Mode" is one of the few precise visual records of this brief, theatrical moment in men's dress, when even contemporaries were genuinely amazed by what they saw.
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From the Rijksmuseum record
From the middle of the 17th century fashionable men wore ‘rhinegraves’, extremely full breeches decorated with an ‘apron’ of braids under long fitted coats. The long curly hair, high-heeled shoes, large bands and profusion of buttons and bows amazed many contemporaries. The men in this series by De Hooghe almost seem to succumb to their garments.
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