#18th century art
Historical Fashion Details in Art. 18th Century dress details.
Historical Fashion Details in Art. ca. 18th Century fashion details.
Valentinesday is coming up so I decided to write a letter inspired by valtentinesday letters of the 18th and early 19th century. It‘s all written in German „Kurrent“ and can make reading pretty hard. I have actually really fallen in love which this certain fun way of letter folding.
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Portrait of the Maistre Sisters, Antoine-Jean Gros (French, 1771-1835), 1796
Oil on canvas
43.2 × 31.2 cm
Two Boys with a Bladder, Joseph Wright of Derby (English, 1734–1797), ca. 1769-1770
Oil on canvas
A Philosopher Showing an Experiment on the Air Pump, Valentine Green (British, 1739-1813) after Joseph Wright of Derby (English, 1734–1797), published 1769
Mezzotint on paper
Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée The Union of Painting and Sculpture, 1768
wow painting and sculpture are really into each other’s “work”
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Marie Leszczinska, Reine de France (Detail)
Charles-André van Loo, 1747
Simon Francis Ravenet, Gunhilda Accused of Adultery, 1760
Engraving
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Detail:Mythological or Allegorical Representation, Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, 1718
— La liberté guidant le peuple (Liberty guiding the people) by Eugène Delacroix, 1789 (x)
Last Saturday around these parts.
Today it is rather cool here in Hamilton, Ontario, actually.
“Dreadful-Hot Weather” from 1808.
Posted just for fun, from a scrapbook in the McMaster University archives. Photography by Dr. Emily West.
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Eighteenth-Century Fiction journal call for articles: special issue “Material Fictions,” ed. Eugenia Zuroski-Jenkins and Michael Yonan.
For more information, please visit:
http://ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/call-for-articles/
Deadline in mid-2017. Contact: [email protected]
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1793 Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun - Portrait of Countess Maria Theresia Bucquoi, née Parr
Who else does a red wrap quite like this? One final glowing portrait by Vigée-Lebrun. That orange bow in the back!
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1790 Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun - Portrait of Countess Catherine Skavronskaya
When everything flowy was the height of style, even the headdress. Another portrait by Vigée-Lebrun that glows. Look at the stream of her hair!
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Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Portrait of Princess Galitzin detail, 1797
Portraits of royal women by Vigée-Lebrun are always glorious.
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Manner of Jean Marc Nattier
18th Century
Portrait of a Noble Lady as a Pilgrim to Santiago de Compostela with Her Dog
Doyle, Important English and Continental Furniture/ Old Master Paintings, New York, Oct 26th
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