Costume Studies - French and Italian thirteenth-and fourteenth-century Costumes (seven Drawings)1845 Accession number: 1906P737 Brown pen and ink on tracing paper. Width: 220 mm Height: 338 mm InformationBrown drew these figures whilst in Rome in 1845. He copied the majority of the figures from Camille Bonnard's 'Costume Historique' published in Paris (1829-30). The drawing of the head in the top right hand corner is a copy of an illustration in J. R. Planché's 'British Costume: a complete History of the Dress of the Inhabitants of the British Isles' (1834). It was used as the blue-print for a hood which Brown had made up and used for two figures in Chaucer at the Court of Edward III (1851, oil on canvas, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney). The Birmingham collection holds a drapery study of this hood (1906P777). It was common for Victorian artists to refer to historical sourcebooks to make their paintings as historically accurate as possible.LM Brown drew these figures whilst in Rome in 1845. He copied them from Camille Bonnard's 'Costume Historique' published in Paris (1829-30). The figures depicted are Petrarch, Cimbue, a young French man and pages in thirteeth and fourteenth-century costume. Roger Smith correctly noted that Brown based the hooded figure from his painting 'Chaucer Reading at the Court of King Edward III' (1845-51; Art gallery of New South Wales, Sydney) on the figure of Cimbue from his tracings. The drawing of the head of the Count of Flanders in the top right hand corner is a copy of the an illustration in J. R. Planche's 'British Costume: a complete history of the dress of the inhabitants of the British Isles' (1834). It was common for Victorian artists to refer to sourcebooks to make their paintings as historically accurate as possible.
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