Costume Sketches From My Collection: "The Bourgeois Gentleman"
These are costume rendering sketches from my past- most were drawn 20 to 30 years ago for classes or shows.
These sketches are among my favorites, though they were a class exercise and never got made. In the play, the lead character, M. Jourdain, aspires to leave his middle class and become friends with nobility. Cléonte, who is in love with M Jourdain's daughter, with the assistance of his valet Covielle, disguises himself and presents himself to Jourdain as the son of the Sultan of Turkey. Needless to say, M. Jourdain is taken in and consents with delight to have his daughter marry foreign royalty. He is even more delighted when the "Turkish prince" informs him that, as father of the bride, he too will be officially enobled at a special ceremony. The last scene of the play presents this ridiculous ceremony, full of mock-Turkish mumbo-jumbo. Here is the outfit they put on M. Jourdain, which is a "Turkish" version of what King Louis XIV himself would wear in coronation robes.
[Some of this explanation was plagarized from Wikipedia]
Costume Sketches From My Collection: "The Bourgeois Gentleman"
These are costume rendering sketches from my past- most were drawn 20 to 30 years ago for classes or shows.
These sketches are among my favorites, though they were a class exercise and never got made. In the play, the lead character, M. Jourdain, aspires to leave his middle class and become friends with nobility. Cléonte, who is in love with M Jourdain's daughter, with the assistance of his valet Covielle, disguises himself and presents himself to Jourdain as the son of the Sultan of Turkey. Needless to say, M. Jourdain is taken in and consents with delight to have his daughter marry foreign royalty. He is even more delighted when the "Turkish prince" informs him that, as father of the bride, he too will be officially enobled at a special ceremony. The last scene of the play presents this ridiculous ceremony, full of mock-Turkish mumbo-jumbo. Here is the outfit they put on M. Jourdain, which is a "Turkish" version of what King Louis XIV himself would wear in coronation robes.
[Some of this explanation was plagarized from Wikipedia]