A collection of 16 handcolored fashion plates from "La Mode Illustrée."
Paris: La Mode Illustrée/Firmin Dido, 1862-1873. 16 Handcolored engravings and lithographs. Sheet size 37.5 x 26.3 cm. Mounted with hinges on support sheets.
The two artists were sisters.
Adele-Anais Toudouze (Paris, 1822-1899) was one of the major artists for La Mode. She belonged to a most talented family of artists and engravers. Other family members who produced fashion plates and fine art included her mother, Alexandre-Marie Colin (1798-1873) and her daughter, Isabelle Toudouze (1872-1925). In 1845 Adele-Anais married the painter and architect, Gabriel-Auguste Toudouze. She is also listed as Maddemoiselle Anais Colin, Adele-Anais Colin, & Adele-Anais Colin-Toudouze.
Héloïse Colin was the daughter of painter Alexandre-Marie Colin and Marie Joseph Juhel. She married Auguste Leloir with whom she had two sons: the illustrator Maurice Leloir and the painter Alexandre-Louis Leloir.
She exhibited her first drawings in the 1835 edition of the Salon. She basically painted watercolors and became known for her portraits of small dimensions. Heloise with her two sisters Adèle Anaïs Toudouze and Laure Noël were among the greatest illustrators of Parisian fashion of the mid-nineteenth.
Colas, 2082; Lipperheide, 4690. Item #51-2996
Price: $600.00