Sack-back Gown - Galleries - 18th Century

18th Century

  • L'Enseigne de Gersaint (detail), 1720, by Antoine Watteau. Early example of a sack-back gown.

  • La Déclaration d'amour, 1731, by Jean François de Troy. Front and back views of women in sack-back gowns.

  • Robe à la française, Netherlands, silk satin brocaded with silk and metallic threads, 1740-60. LACMA M.2007.211.928

  • Eleanor Frances Dixie, c. 1753, by Henry Pickering. The sitter is wearing a bergère hat and a brocaded silk sack-back gown.

  • Anastasia Ivanovna, Countess of Hesse-Homburg, Princess Trubetskaya (1700–1755), painted by Alexander Roslin, wearing a pink silk sack-back gown and petticoat. 1757.

  • Sack-back gown, 1760s, back view. Fashion Museum, Bath.

  • Sack-back gown and petticoat, 1775–1780 V&A Museum no. T.180&A-1965

  • Sack-back gown and petticoat, 1775–1780, back view. V&A Museum no. T.180&A-1965

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