c.1910 Art Nouveau Fashion print Paris atelier designer model mirror assistants

A la Recherche d'un Modele Nouveau.

(In search of the newest styles- Paris- early Fashion photography- interior workshops of fashion designers)

Issued Paris, 1910.

Beautiful early 20th century antique photogravure print.

Depicts the workshop (atelier) of a fashion designer directing adjustments to a woman's dress.

Splendid little known image, the model's torso reflected in the mirror, two beautiful assistants in long dresses beside her, the designer in cape with long wand-stick pointing out details, the image an Art Nouveau photographic masterpiece.

Paper and image remains clean and well preserved with a fine patina and visual appeal. Beautiful soft visual quality to the image utterly unique to photographic images of this era printed via photogravure methods.

Sheet measures c. 12 1/4"H x 9 3/8"W.

Printed area measures c. 7"H x 7"W.

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