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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 3d

Had a lovely conversation about my new book with Miranda Melcher for the @NewBooksNetwork podcast. You can listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: newbooksnetwork.com/the-art-of-p...

Justine De Young, "The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris" (Bloomsbury, 2025) - New Books Network

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · 7d

Book spotted in a bookstore!

Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · 7d

Last week a German journalist contacted me after finding my book at MoMA, so I of course had to go see it there for myself! ❤️ My first time seeing it in a bookstore! Very exciting. 😍

Anyone who goes to see the Sargent show at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, please snap a pic of my book in that shop. 🙏

The Art of Parisian Chic in a bookstore display with other stacks of books.

Overall view of the book section of the MoMA bookstore with the display with The Art of Parisian Chic.

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · Aug 14

So thrilled to share this research with everyone at last!

Bloomsbury Fashion @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social · Aug 14

Out now!

Using artworks by Berthe Morisot, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and others, @addressingart.bsky.social explores how women and artists in Impressionist Paris crafted their public images to exploit and resist stereotypes.

Find out more: bit.ly/414koW9

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · Aug 7

Order now! www.bloomsbury.com/us/art-of-pa...

The Art of Parisian Chic

Using artworks by Berthe Morisot, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and others, The Art of Parisian Chic explores how women and artists in Imp…

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · Aug 7

🎉Publication Day! *The Art of Parisian Chic* is now available in softcover, hardcover and ebook formats. Paperback is only $28!

Redheaded woman in black dress stands holding book with the same cover as the painting behind her, which depicts a woman in a 19th c. black dress staring out.

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · Jun 10

Here’s a sneak peek!

Jeanne Duval, a Black woman seated dressed in full skirt with hanging belt, bonnet with large bow tied at her chin. On the other page a fashion plate image of a seated woman in a similar dress with a woman in white standing beside her.

The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · Jun 10

Woot! My advance copies have arrived and they’re beautiful! 150 full color images 😍

Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · Jun 10

Happy day! My advance copies have arrived! Available for preorder now (link in bio). Publishing August 7th! @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social #fashionhistory #19thcentury #arthistory

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · Mar 31

5/ an American banker and one of the founders of Banque de Paris et Pays-Bas; they had a son together in 1877 and eventually married in 1885, after which Stern legitimized their son. More on how the painting was received in the coming days!

bust-length carte de visite photograph of white woman with velvet bodice, white collar and bouffant hair.

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · Mar 31

4/ She was said to have a “mad passion for riding and horses.” Off-stage, Croizette lived in a lavish mansion at 7 rond-pont des Champs-Elysées, where she hosted a regular salon frequented by prominent aristocrats, politicians, & financiers. She was in a long-term relationship with Jacques Stern...

Same white woman standing in black riding dress, holding a crop, wearing a top hat in front of a painted backdrop, leaning on painted fence.

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · Mar 31

3/ In At the Seaside, Carolus-Duran depicted Croizette, on horseback on the beach at low tide near the resort town of Trouville. Like Bernhardt, Croizette appeared frequently in the press and was photographed many times, including in riding dress... #arthistory #academicsky #19thc

White woman in black riding habit atop a chestnut horse standing on the edge of the sea at low tide.

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · Mar 19

2/at the Comédie-Française. The photo is undated but I'd guess it's from the early 1870s. She was a celebrated beauty & the sister-in-law of the artist Carolus-Duran, who painted her as an amazone (equestrienne) in an 1873 painting I discuss in the book. Her sister Pauline Croizette is on the cover!

The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris by Justine De Young. (Bloomsbury 2025). White woman in black dress standings against a gray wall, staring out at the viewer while she pulls off one of her gray gloves. Yellow rose on her hat, red bud at her breast.

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · Mar 19

1/Given everything it has seemed frivolous to post about my forthcoming book, but I’ve learned it’s being printed this week and so to celebrate I thought I’d post a #19thc carte de visite that just arrived yesterday too. It’s of the lovely Sophie Croizette, a great rival of Sarah Bernhardt...

Oval bust photograph of young woman with her hair in an updo accented with a daisy. Dress bodice ornamented with jet. A. Liébert the photographer.

reverse of the photograph, printed in blue "Photographie Americaine" with Eagle US seal. A. Liébert (81 rue St. Lazare) Pres la Chassee d'Antin. Au 1er étage. Paris. [Sophie Croizette rivale de Sarah B. in later pencil]

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · Dec 13

2/Only some of which made it into the book. The rest I hope to share in a public lecture at the Getty (@gettymuseum.bsky.social) when the book is out. The BNF has alternate shot from the same sitting with Nadar.

#AcademicSky #theatrehistory

Jeanne de Marsy with same hair and outfit as previous card. Bodice covered in sequined arabesques. Sheer cape ornamented with sequins. Skirt embroidered with stripes of simple flowers. More pearl jewelry and a white feather fan.

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · Dec 13

1/Very happy with my cute new carte de visite album. Also the new postcard of Jeanne Demarsy (the model for Manet’s Jeanne). Here she’s playing a harem role in “Mon Oncle Barbassou,” an 1891 Gymnase production. I discovered a lot about Demarsy’s career as an actress and cocotte,

#19thc #arthistory

Small pink album with two cartoon eyes on it with a postcard resting on top

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · Dec 4

Oh the pain of realizing you should have written more about a painting you only mention in passing in your proofs. Jeanne de Tourbey I am so sorry I left your story out (though my editor is doubtless pleased as this chapter is already 68 pages 😅).

#19thc #fashionhistory #arthistory #academicsky

White woman in black satin day dress stares out like a sphinx, her left hand to her chin. Large gold pendant earrings. She sits on a gold sofa.

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · Nov 22

Going to be a bit quieter over the next two weeks as I have final page proofs to review (and an index to assemble!). Keeping two of the women in the book close as inspiration. ❤️ Wish me luck!

#academicsky #fashionhistory #19thc #arthistory #France

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · Nov 19

8/ For more on this story and other scandals, you’ll have to read the book (available for pre-order now)!

www.bloomsbury.com/us/art-of-pa...

Cover of The Art of Parisian Chic by Justine De Young (white woman dressed in black staring out at viewer)

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · Nov 19

7/ This was treated in the press as an act of seduction by Regnault and of gallantry on the part of Boldini, with Le Voltaire joking: “Let he who has never let himself be conquered and convinced by the eyes of a pretty woman throw the first stone.”

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · Nov 19

6/ Regnault sued arguing the portrait was legally hers and that Boldini should not have the right to sell her likeness without her consent. This assertion of image rights never actually played out in the courts, as a month later Boldini capitulated and gave the work to Regnault.

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · Nov 19

5/ was such that the Journal amusant caricature of the portrait played on the dispute, showing Regnault’s horse knee deep in mud with the caption: “Miss Alice Regnault bogged down by Mr. Boldini. (25,000 francs. It’s for nothing.)”

#arthistory #caricature

Caricature of woman riding a horse through knee deep mud

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · Nov 19

4/ Regnault protested that that was not their agreement and offered to buy it rather than see it sold. Boldini then demanded 25,000 francs for the small picture; Regnault (and the newspapers) were shocked, as one critic remarked, “the leap from homage to sale is rude!” The coverage of the scandal

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · Nov 19

3/ in scale—only slightly more than two feet tall, but the drama it caused was far grander. After the Salon opened, Boldini is said to have written a note to Regnault informing her that since she was not satisfied with the portrait (how he came to believe this is unclear), he would sell it.

white woman riding horse side saddle with white dog chasing

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · Nov 19

2/ subject, Boldini begged Alice Regnault, an actress at the Théâtre du Gymnase, to pose as an amazone (equestrienne) for him. She agreed with the understanding that the portrait would then be hers for only the “price of a smile.” The resulting portrait of Regnault riding in the Bois is quite modest

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The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · Nov 19

1/ Now for a story that I do discuss in the book: In the late 1870s, Giovanni Boldini, a young Italian modern-life painter was enjoying an “early rise to fame,” as one contemporary critic put it. Eager to couple the beauty and celebrity of an actress with a fashionable

#19thc #fashionhistory 🧵

Boldini self-portrait standing in black suit holding small canvas

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Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social · Nov 18

This time a thread on Alice Regnault in a saucy Horse Guard uniform. I'm bad at posting so I forgot to indicate it's a thread, but do click through for many more images.

#19thc #France #theatrehistory #academicsky

The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social · Nov 18

Can’t resist sharing this other recent find on eBay. Another shot of Alice Regnault by Gaston, Mathieu & Cie this time in costume as Julia, a Horse Guard in "Le Trône d'Ecosse,” which debuted at the Théâtre des Variétés on Nov. 17, 1871.

#19thc #France #theatrehistory

White woman straddling chair in horse guard uniform with short skirt

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