François-Claudins Compte-Calix

François-Claudins Compte-Calix. Two women's day dresses. French, c.1865. From an unknown publication. Two women in an interior wearing day dresses in pale blue-grey, one with stripes, the other cut with a gored skirt extending into long tabs over a white underskirt

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François-Claudins Compte-Calix. Two walking dresses and hats for an unidentified publication. Two women walking in a garden wearing ankle-length crinoline dresses. On the left, a pale green dress trimmed with buttons, frills, tassels, and black ribbons, with a small white bonnet. On the right, a blue dress trimmed with pleating, black lapels with white embroidery and a matching blue hat.

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François-Claudins Compte-Calix. Woman and two children. Paris, c.1858. Published in the Musée des Dames et des Demoiselles. A woman in a blue silk dress trimmed with black lace and a flounced skirt, with a matching ribboned cap, leaning on a chair back in an interior with two small children. One, a small boy in a plaid tartan dress and grey cloak is playing with the keys on a piano while a small girl in a lime green dress decorated with black stars and bands leans on the piano stool.

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François-Claudins Compte-Calix, engraved by Braequet. Woman in an aniline purple crinoline day dress and a small boy. Hand-coloured fashion plate from La Toilette de Paris. French, 1860. Fashion plate showing a woman and child in day dress in an outdoor setting. The woman in an aniline purple silk crinoline dress, holding the hand of a little boy in a pale fawn frock with darker chocolate braiding and buttoned tab details.

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François-Claudins Compte-Calix and E. Braequet. Two women's day dresses. French, c.1868. From an unknown publication. Two women in an outdoor setting, one in a pale grey dress with pale green ribbon trimmings and Swiss waist, the other in a brown skirt, draped-up overskirt and jacket bodice with a black hat with a lace veil.

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A. Lacouriere and François-Claudins Compte-Calix. Two women's day dresses. French, April 1866. From an unknown publication. Two women in an outdoor setting. Pale grey dress with caught-up overskirt and matching hat, trimmed with self-fabric tabs, pleating and yellow bands, over an underskirt of yellow and black stripes, and bright pink dress with self-fabric flounces, bows and fringe trimming.

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François-Claudins Compte-Calix and Carrache. Two day dresses by Mme Pieffort. Les Modes Parisiennes, early 1860s. Two women standing looking out over a view. On the left, a grey redingote dress with flecks, scallops and button details, on the right, a spotted dress with a red plaid sash.

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