Das Element der Mode in der Malerei von Jacques-Louis David und Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Published in 1968 by Juris Druck & Verlag in Zurich, Marie-Louise Weber’s 'Das Element der Mode in der Malerei von Jacques-Louis David und Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres' serves as a scholarly investigation into the intersection of sartorial history and Neoclassical art. Emerging from a period of increased academic interest in the cultural context of 18th and 19th-century portraiture, the work examines how the distinct fashion sensibilities of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras were interpreted and idealized by two of France's most prominent painters.

The text provides a formal analysis of how David’s rigid, political approach to dress contrasted with Ingres’s later, more fluid and idealized depiction of costume. Weber approaches the subject with the characteristic rigor of Swiss academic publishing of the late 1960s, focusing on the semiotics of garments as tools for status and character definition within the visual language of the period. The book remains a niche reference for art historians interested in the interplay between costume history and high-art aesthetics.