Charles Frederick Worth: 5 works

A slideshow of artworks auto-selected from multiple collections

By Google Arts & Culture

Design for a fancy-dress costume (1860/1869) by Worth, Charles FrederickThe Victoria and Albert Museum

'Charles Frederick Worth, a relative newcomer, became the Empress's favoured couturier at the end of the 1850s.'

Reception Dress: Day Bodice, Evening Bodice and Skirt (1877 - 1878) by Charles Frederick Worth (British, b.1826, d.1895)Cincinnati Art Museum

'His first model was his young French wife, Marie Vernet, who would often wear Worth's latest creation to a fashionable event to advertise his work.'

Day dress and cape Day dress and cape (1890/1893) by Worth, Charles FrederickThe Victoria and Albert Museum

'He used references from sketches, historical fashion plates and paintings by famous artists including Titian, Rembrandt, Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds.'

Day dress Day dress (1884/1893) by Worth, Charles FrederickThe Victoria and Albert Museum

'He was born in 1825 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, and started working at the age of 12 in a draper's shop in London.'

Evening dress (1925) by House of WorthThe Metropolitan Museum of Art

'Charles Frederick Worth's two sons, Jean-Philippe and Gaston, carried on the high standards of design and technique at the House of Worth following the designer's death in 1895.'

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