Le Musée de la Poupée Paris - les parisiennes et bébés en biscuit

Room 1 - 1800-1899 : Fashion dolls, the golden age of the "child doll" with bisque head.

•••••• Fashion dolls

Group of fashion dolls, circa 1870

Under the Second Empire, the doll has first represented the lady morphology. These rich and refined lady-dolls are particularly remarquable for their trousseau and accessories reflecting the fashion of their time. First made of wood and composition, they than had a bisque (mat porcelain) head and a leather or wood body.


papier maché shoulderplate fashion doll, 1840	papier maché shoulderplate fashion doll, 1850	porcelain doll

Bru fashion doll, 1869	Jumeau fashion doll with Barrois head, 1860	Victor Clément fashion doll, 1860

	group of Gaultier, Jumeau, Bru fashion dolls, circa 1870

•••••• The bisque head bebes

group of fashion dolls and bébés circa 1880

In 1878 a new type of dolls appeared at the universal exhibition of Paris : the bisque headed « bebe » that represented from then on the child from 3 to 12 years old.
The "bebe’s" birth is related to the incredible international development of French doll and toy industry. The main doll makers of that time are Jumeau, Bru, Gaultier, Steiner, Fleischmann but also Thuillier, Schmitt, May, Halopeau...


Jumeau bébé, circa 1882		Petit & Dumoutier bébé, circa 1875-1890

	group of bébés, circa 1885

Steiner bébé, circa 1870	Gaultier bébé	Kestner bébé, 1880

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