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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Had a lovely conversation about my new book with Miranda Melcher for the @NewBooksNetwork podcast. You can listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: newbooksnetwork.com/the-art-of-p...

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

So thrilled to share this research with everyone at last!

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

🎉Publication Day! *The Art of Parisian Chic* is now available in softcover, hardcover and ebook formats. Paperback is only $28!

Redheaded woman in black dress stands holding book with the same cover as the painting behind her, which depicts a woman in a 19th c. black dress staring out.

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Woot! My advance copies have arrived and they’re beautiful! 150 full color images 😍

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

1/Given everything it has seemed frivolous to post about my forthcoming book, but I’ve learned it’s being printed this week and so to celebrate I thought I’d post a #19thc carte de visite that just arrived yesterday too. It’s of the lovely Sophie Croizette, a great rival of Sarah Bernhardt...

Oval bust photograph of young woman with her hair in an updo accented with a daisy. Dress bodice ornamented with jet. A. Liébert the photographer.

reverse of the photograph, printed in blue "Photographie Americaine" with Eagle US seal. A. Liébert (81 rue St. Lazare) Pres la Chassee d'Antin. Au 1er étage. Paris. [Sophie Croizette rivale de Sarah B. in later pencil]

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

1/Very happy with my cute new carte de visite album. Also the new postcard of Jeanne Demarsy (the model for Manet’s Jeanne). Here she’s playing a harem role in “Mon Oncle Barbassou,” an 1891 Gymnase production. I discovered a lot about Demarsy’s career as an actress and cocotte, #19thc #arthistory

Small pink album with two cartoon eyes on it with a postcard resting on top

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Oh the pain of realizing you should have written more about a painting you only mention in passing in your proofs. Jeanne de Tourbey I am so sorry I left your story out (though my editor is doubtless pleased as this chapter is already 68 pages 😅). #19thc #fashionhistory #arthistory #academicsky

White woman in black satin day dress stares out like a sphinx, her left hand to her chin. Large gold pendant earrings. She sits on a gold sofa.

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Going to be a bit quieter over the next two weeks as I have final page proofs to review (and an index to assemble!). Keeping two of the women in the book close as inspiration. ❤️ Wish me luck! #academicsky #fashionhistory #19thc #arthistory #France

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

1/ Now for a story that I do discuss in the book: In the late 1870s, Giovanni Boldini, a young Italian modern-life painter was enjoying an “early rise to fame,” as one contemporary critic put it. Eager to couple the beauty and celebrity of an actress with a fashionable #19thc #fashionhistory 🧵

Boldini self-portrait standing in black suit holding small canvas

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This time a thread on Alice Regnault in a saucy Horse Guard uniform. I'm bad at posting so I forgot to indicate it's a thread, but do click through for many more images. #19thc #France #theatrehistory #academicsky

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Can’t resist sharing this other recent find on eBay. Another shot of Alice Regnault by Gaston, Mathieu & Cie this time in costume as Julia, a Horse Guard in "Le Trône d'Ecosse,” which debuted at the Théâtre des Variétés on Nov. 17, 1871. #19thc #France #theatrehistory

White woman straddling chair in horse guard uniform with short skirt

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Exciting update, the photo of Alice Regnault (born Augustine-Alexandrine Toulet) is by Gaston, Mathieu & Cie. There's an alternate crop in the Paris Musées collection. #fashionhistory #19thc #France #courtesan #chic www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-car...

white woman in elaborate hat and trimmed bodice

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I’m going to start sharing images of some of the women discussed in the book. These images won’t necessarily be the ones in the book, though some of them will be. Here’s a photograph of Alice Regnault, an actress at the Théâtre du Gymnase whom I discuss, which I just bought off eBay.

A seated white woman in a tailored bodice with elaborate trimming

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 16/11/2024

Still trying to recreate my threads here so I can deactivate my twitter account! Tonight's is on the old myth that women's buttons were put on the left for the convenience of women's maids. 🗃️🪡

A closeup of a bodice made of blue satin and a copper and blue figured silk (copper brocade on a ribbed blue silk ground); the bodice buttons down the front.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

There is a hint of the reptilian to this mid #1870s dress. The angled pleating and position of the decorative buttons lends it an air of a watchful crocodile in shaded greens, the tongue of pale train skirting its hem, Mme Depret Paris @metcostume.bsky.social

Front and back view of a shaded green dress with pleating and decorative buttons

Cuff detail in two shades of green, pleated and trimmed

Bodice detail in two shades of green silk with wide lapels, embroidered buttons and a silk bow

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Since everyone is doing intros: I’m a feminist art historian who writes about fashion and gender. My new book is *The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris* (Bloomsbury 2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social #19thc #academicsky #fashionhistory

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Fabulous Fashion! @fabulousfashion.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Photograph of a woman with bustle dress Circa 1886, Tallahassee, Florida, United States Source: Florida Memory, #victorianfashion #fashionhistory #victorian

Dark haired, dark skinned woman wearing a dress, consisting of a bodice with long sleeves and contrasting plastron, center piece seems to be lace overlaid fabric. Buttons along center front. The skirt repeats the contrast in one side panel. Chain of some kind on bodice, maybe pocket watch? The woman has half gloves, ring on finger. One hand holds a feathered fan.

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The book has a cover! Available for pre-order from Bloomsbury. Only $28!

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Looking at a rich array of visual sources, from portraits to modern-life paintings, photographs to fashion plates, the book reveals how women were seen, how they aspired to be seen, and how they navigated public life in nineteenth-century Paris.

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

The book explores how modern women and modern artists in Paris (1855-1885) crafted their public images, manipulating expectations surrounding five fashionable types—the mistress, the young widow, the equestrienne, the shopgirl, and the Parisienne—to exploit and resist stereotypes.

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

I’m thrilled to announce that _The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris_ will be forthcoming from Bloomsbury Visual Arts in 2025. #fashionhistory #arthistory #womensstudies

Woman in evening dress stares out at photographer.

Woman in black hat and dress stares out at painter.

Black woman in riding dress poses for the photographer.

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