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-1939-368
From LinkedCulture
This Dutch fashion print from the 1670s shows a man practically buried under his own outfit. Romeyn de Hooghe's etching captures the rhinegrave style at its peak, with a fur-trimmed coat, cascading curls, high-heeled shoes, and a broad-brimmed hat held at his side. Prints like this one traveled across Europe, making elite fashion a shared visual language long before magazines existed. It is both a commercial object and a record of how clothing once performed status like theater.
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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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