CostumesParisiens Robe a Danser... by Gerda Wegener Pochoir This is a plate-signed hand-coloured pochoir illustration from the 1914 Journal des Dames et des Modes (Plate #165) - a Parisian haute couture journal containing these(unbound) artworks published by Tom Antongini from June 1912 until August 1914. In her 1979 book "Parisian Fashion" Christina Nuzzi describes this Journal: "With its expensive layout, its society columns, its poetic texts, its colourful annotations and its fashion reports, it represented the last brilliant, refined, impartial and aestheticizing impulse of a happy and optimistic society occupying the centre of the stage in the period that has aptly been called the 'Belle Epoque'" Rich, intense pochoir application. A colourful and interesting image of fashionable travel just prior to WWI. H. 8.5in X W. 5.75in; H. 21.6cm X W. 14.6cm