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Dr. Justine De Young
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Prof. of art/fashion history @ FIT & Editor of *Fashion in European Art* & of the Fashion History Timeline. *The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris* (@artofparisianchic.bsky.social), Bloomsbury Visual Arts in 2025.
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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.
October 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Thrilled to be presenting my newest research on Louise Abbéma and lesbian self-fashioning in Belle-Epoque Paris at the Feminist Art History Conference in DC on Sunday. #arthistory 🗃️
Public Selves, Private Lives: Lesbian Self-Fashioning in Louise Abbéma’s Portraiture by Justine De Young. Crop of Abbéma’s Lunch in the Conservatory at right showing Abbéma lounging back on one elbow with a woman in a white dress seated at the table next to her. A small black dog eats off a plate on the ground. The divan is covered with a red oriental carpet and leopard skin. An older man stands behind the table with his hand in his pocket.
September 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Plot twist: Arc de Triomphe lady has red hair. Now do people think she's a different lady? Or do we think it's just dyed? #arthistory #France
White woman with red hair, wearing a high necked green velvet dress with feathered hat. Arc de Triomphe in background.
August 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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There is tremendous diversity in her portraiture. It was one of her specialties. But she did paint several women quite often (in the other cases I know they were close friends), so I'm intrigued by who this woman might be. They're definitely not self-portraits; here's a self-portrait:
Abbéma self-portrait. Dark brown hair, cropped bangs. Gray dress with black bow and white collar.
August 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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B&W image of white woman in profile, with her back to viewer. Same woman in next painting wearing black in profile on Champs-Elysees. Then another white woman in a straw boater and striped orange and blue shirt with blazer. Then same woman in red hat and taupe jacket with black blouse.
August 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Reposting this as 2 of the women are being hidden unless you click. (There are 4 women here).
B&W image of white woman in profile, with her back to viewer. Same woman in next painting wearing black in profile on Champs-Elysees. Then another white woman in a straw boater and striped orange and blue shirt with blazer. Then same woman in red hat and taupe jacket with black blouse.
August 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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What about this woman? Same or different? This painting is about 8 years earlier than the others. @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social
White woman in dark purple dress sits on a chair, with a book in her lap. Curly blondish bangs and hair up.
August 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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I'm virtually positive the 2 women on the left are the same and the 2 women on the right (boater/red hat) are the same, but do we think they're all the same woman? What about the 2 blondes? I think they're the same, but are they yet a 3rd woman? These are all paintings by Louise Abbéma. #arthistory
B&W image of white woman in profile, with her back to viewer. Same woman in next painting wearing black in profile on Champs-Elysees. Then another white woman in a straw boater and striped orange and blue shirt with blazer. Then same woman in red hat and taupe jacket with black blouse. Blonde woman with bangs with her hair up in pink bodiced dress, red flowers in hair and at her chest. The same woman drinking tea in a purple blouse. Curly hair.
August 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Transcription help! I can't make out the word/name "Vos lettres pornographiques, Esquier?, m’ont profondément révolté !
Comment l’austere Fontane, le mieux auteur de l’Histoire universelle, n’a trouvé a se loger que dans un replis es gorges-Pailly !" Fontane is Marius Fontane. 🗃️ #French
Vos lettres pornographiques, Esquier?, m’ont profondément révolté !
Comment l’austere Fontane, le mieux auteur de l’Histoire universelle, n’a trouvé a se loger que dans un replis es gorges-Pailly ! with sketch of postwoman delivering mail
August 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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🎉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.
August 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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This screenshot from Instagram is my only evidence my book was on sale (early!) in the Met’s “Sargent and Paris” gift shop. I went to photograph it today and it was sold out! Releases widely on August 7!
Sargent and Paris catalogues with a close crop of a white woman’s neck and a tiny view of The Art of Parisian Chic on a bookshelf behind.
August 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Warning the hardcover version is even nicer 😅. Pre-order now, releasing August 7: www.bloomsbury.com/us/art-of-pa...
Cover of The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris with a woman standing, staring out and removing one glove. She wears a black dress and has a prominent tea rose in her hat. Vague office setting behind.
June 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Happy day! My advance copies have arrived! Available for preorder now (link in bio). Publishing August 7th! @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social #fashionhistory #19thcentury #arthistory
June 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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I did it via the Wiki edu platform. I think you can see the whole assignment at the link below (& stats so far). I had never edited Wikipedia before and it was honestly quite easy, though it was a lot of work, so I'd recommend it for small, high-level courses. dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Fash...
5 Articles Created 28 Articles Edited 703 Total Edits 20 Student Editors 19.9K Words Added 324 References Added This is the number of reference tags and shortened footnote templates added to articles, and can include multiple references to the same source. The data comes from the reference-counter Toolforge API. 92.8K Article Views This is the estimated number of views based on a 30-day average for each article, through the most recent stats update. Views may decrease if the updated average is lower than previous counts. 15 Commons Uploads
June 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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This is a very common prop in fashion plates. In my chapter I argue it’s performing bourgeois femininity.
Woman in brown silk dress seated with feet propped on pillow stool. Woman in white dress with purple trim stands beside
June 5, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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A lovely Louise Abbéma portrait from 1891. Can anyone help me decipher the name? Looks like "Mme la Marquise de Gandzy"? Real Mme X (by Sargent) vibes. #arthistory #academicsky #fashionhistory
Three-quarter length portrait of a white woman in a dark satin evening gown with a v-back edged in fur. She holds a fan and wears a crescent of Diana in her hair. She's in near profile.
April 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Very excited to see Louise Abbéma's 1879 Salon portrait (which I'd never seen before!) pop up on an auction site: drouot.com/fr/l/2882313... I think it may represent Marie-Caroline du Fresnay, but am not sure. Love the snake bracelet!
White woman seated in black silk dress, wearing yellow elbow-length gloves and a gold snake bracelet. Dress is ornamented with black jet beads and white flowers at the bust. She holds a fan and appears against a gold screen painted with flowers.
April 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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"in a rowboat on a park lake. The curators said they wanted to spotlight long-forgotten female artists, such as Abbéma, to revive interest in their work." Here is the work the NYTimes labelled a "surprise."
White woman seated in pale day dress in a rowboat, while woman in dark suit jacket, pale vest and black skirt stands and holds a red parasol. Black and white swans and baby swans along with flowers in the lake.
April 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Bella would like to recommend an acquisition. #catsky #caturday
3 long haired black hats stare out with yellow eyes. A dramatic red curtain hangs behind with a gold turtle on it. The cats sit on an ornate gold baroque table. Brownish black long haired cat lounges on green couch with bright pink pillow behind her.
February 2, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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So #fashionhistory peeps, what do we think our lady on the beach is up to? She clearly has a needle and some kind of lace? panel, but also blue yarn? What are the green and black things on her lap?
Woman in blue dress with ample pleated hem pooled about her sits on the beach in a chair with a white lace panel on her lap while holding a needle. A craft basket is toppled over with blue ribbons and blue balls of yarn? on the ground.
February 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Good job, but what you’re currently doing is embroidery 😊. Cross stitching involves little Xs. I’ve found this chart useful.
Cross stitch vs embroidery stitch diagram. Cross stitch follows a grid, mostly involves Xs. Embroidery is more free form (running, back, chain, stem stitches).
January 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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You're welcome! She was quite a discovery for me as well. I talk about two of her paintings in my forthcoming book, but I'm now planning to feature her heavily in my next book project. She was friends with De Nittis. He dedicated his Place de la Madeleine watercolor to her.
Laundress in black with basket of laundry walks along an empty street in front of the Madeleine. Paris apartment blocks behind. Tree-lined avenue and green bench in foreground.
January 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Today in strange art find news, apparently Abbéma made a loose copy of Marcus Stone's 1888 "In Love." Hers is dated 1894. A kitschy choice and not really much like her other work at this moment. Very odd, lol. Not her best work.

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Man in late 18th c. red coat sits at table outside opposite woman in white gown sewing. Garden background behind with sculpture and trees. Man in late 18th c. red coat sits at table outside opposite woman in white gown sewing. Garden background behind with sculpture and trees. But this table has apples on it and a tree coming out of the center.
January 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Been spending a lot of time on auction websites looking for Abbéma works and happened across this unexpected oil by Jules Alexandre Grün titled "Blanche," which is new to me. I wonder who she is? That's a fabulous hat!

#arthistory #fashionhistory #skystorians
Black woman wearing small gold hoop earrings, a large black hat with pink and yellow flowers, black plumes and gauze, also a coachman's two tired cape which is closed with a large brown bow directly under her chin. The woman is smiling broadly, with highlights on her cheeks and nose.
January 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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4/ Found a slightly better image of the Abbéma which confirms the first image is smushed thanks to RKD

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January 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM