Georges Barbier

Georges Barbier (French, 1882-1932).

• Sold as a set of 6.
• The largest and most carefully meditated of Barbier’s designs.
• Lithographs are hand-colored in pochoir by Henri Reidel, some with fully colored backgrounds.
• Among the largest and most carefully meditated of Barbier’s designs, an ambitious feat that took him from 1920 to 1924 to complete it to his satisfaction.
• A study of manners and fashion, they were designed to appeal both to those who like to link the present to the past, and to observers of the current scene.
• Barbier begins his introduction with a summary of fashion illustration from the XVI century onwards, finding a specific predecessor for his own work in that of Horace Vernet’s record of First

Empire costume, Incroyables et merveilleuses, published about one hundred years earlier.

• Barbier saw similarities between the period after the Napoleonic Wars and his own post-Great War era, with dandies and their ladies free at last to enjoy frivolities and sensuality.
• Framed and glazed.