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Importante Spécialité de Trousseaux
Author

Charles Joseph Watelet - Au Bon Marché Bruxelles
PublisherBruxelles Rue Neuve: Au Bon Marché / Vaxelaire – Claes , [ca 1915]
Edition
Weight450 gram
CF
Keywords Charles Joseph Watelet, Au Bon Marché, World War I, fashion, mode, Bruxelles, trousseau, layette, luiermand, uitzet, commercial catalogue, textile, texriel, linnen, lakens, Alfred Stevens, Jean Francois Portaels, portraitist
Booknumber 21447
Category's Exact Sciences (Economics)
Culture History (Fashion)
Sociology (Upbringing & Pregnancy)
Various (Divers)
Art (Europe)
Art (20th Century)
Art (Drawings)
Art (Graphic Art & Printing Art)
Art (Impressionism)
Culture History (Love & Marriage)
Culture History (Europe)

8-vo. Pp 28 + 6 plates outside of text. Half-leather with gilt-lettered spine. Original decorated wrappers bound in. Title-page in orange and red.

Commercial presentation booklet, mainly devoted to trousseaus, with an introductory chapter on “Le Mariage, Usages, Céremonies”, accompanying the calcutated costs of 6 different trousseaus, from 600 francs till 15.000 francs. The cheapest one, consisting of 102 pieces, including “linge de lit”, “linge de table”, “linge de toilette”, “linge d’office” and “linge personnel”, starting with “2 paires draps brodés pour grand lit” and closing with “1 corset”, the whole costing 630,45 francs. And when the marriage was succesfull in producing progeny, Au Bon Marché was ready to supply a layette to the happy parents, again with 7 different price-ranges, from 103,60 francs (48 pieces) till 1025,40 francs. A letter from Au Bon Marché is bound in, stating that the catalogue was printed at he time that the war was declared and that since then prices have risen considerably, with an average of ca 100 %. Illustrated by Charles Joseph Watelet (1867- 1954), who was educated at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts at Brussels, where he was a student of Jean-Francois Portaels. He was further educated in Paris by Alfred Stevens - famous for his portraits of women. Watelet was active in Brussels where he was well-known as a genre- and portrait-painter, especially of elegant women from the upper-class. His charming full-page coloured plates in this booklet depict the different pre- and postmarital phases, from courting, betrothal, choosing the trousseau, mariage and baptism till walking the child. Furthermore illustrated with several text-illustrations in red and orange. Nice binding, very well-kept copy of an interesting booklet, documenting an important every-day life event – even then ! - from the time of the First World War.

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