Art Nouveau Microfleece Hooded Cloak (Museum Collection)

Albert-Charles-Auguste Racinet (1825–1893), himself an accomplished artist, is best known today for publishing two major pictorial works on the history of design — Le costume historique and L'Ornement polychrome — while engraver and artistic director at the Parisian publisher Firmin Didot et Cie. Although based on past masterpieces of design, the fantastic reproductions in L'Ornement polychrome, carried out by a number of skilled commercial artists of the day, can be considered works of art in their own right. We have included this artwork on our first release in our Museum Collection, which features our classic clothing with artwork from galleries and museums from around the world.