Theme
10:51pmDecember 21, 2017

catchingtearsinrain:

Rhapsody In Blue

Blue dresses in art (European art 1600s-1800s)

  1.  Infanta Maria Isabela de Borbon (detail) by Vicente Palmaroli, 1866 
  2. Maria Theresa (detail) by Martin van Meytens, 1749
  3. Salome with the head of St John the Baptist (detail) by Carlo Dolci (1665-1670 )
  4. Rachel Kay Shuttleworth (detail) by Michele Gordigiani,1876
  5. María Cristina de Borbón, (detail) Reina de España, by Vicente López Portaña, 1830.
  6. Mrs. James Warren (Mercy Otis)  (detail) by John Singleton Copley. 1763
10:53pmNovember 27, 2017
closeupofpaintings: “ Charles-Amable Lenoir - Reverie, 1893 (detail), oil on canvas ”

closeupofpaintings:

Charles-Amable Lenoir - Reverie, 1893 (detail), oil on canvas

10:52pmNovember 27, 2017
closeupofpaintings: “Eugen von Blaas - The Red Fan, 1892 (detail), oil on panel ”

closeupofpaintings:

Eugen von Blaas - The Red Fan, 1892 (detail), oil on panel

5:37pmNovember 26, 2017
rubenista: “Dirck van Baburen, The Procuress (detail), 1622 ”

rubenista:

Dirck van Baburen, The Procuress (detail), 1622

3:08pmNovember 20, 2017
lilacsinthedooryard: “ Frederic Leighton (British, 1830-1896) Painters Honeymoon 1864 ”

lilacsinthedooryard:

Frederic Leighton (British, 1830-1896)

Painters Honeymoon 1864

5:37pmSeptember 5, 2017
10:41pmJune 12, 2017
9:00pmMarch 29, 2017

vivelareine:

Details from self-portraits by female 18th-century artists

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749-1803)
Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842)
Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807)
Marie-Gabrielle Capet (1761-1818)
Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux (1761-1802)
Marie-Geneviève Bouliar (1763-1825)

6:42pmMarch 22, 2017

lacedheartt:

Madame Bergeret by François Boucher (ca. 1776). Detail.
Oil on canvas.

6:21pmJanuary 30, 2017
books0977: “ Beauty and the Beast. George Henry, R.A., R.S.A., R.S.W. (Scottish, 1858-1943). Oil on canvas. Paisley Museum and Art Galleries. Henry uses the translated title of La Belle et la Bête, a traditional fairy tale written by French novelist...

books0977:

Beauty and the Beast. George Henry, R.A., R.S.A., R.S.W. (Scottish, 1858-1943). Oil on canvas. Paisley Museum and Art Galleries.

Henry uses the translated title of La Belle et la Bête, a traditional fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in 1740, and the abridged and rewritten version by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, published in 1756.