“She burned too bright for this world.”

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Skull (1887) by Vincent van Gogh

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Grand Duchesses Alexandra and Elena Pavlovna of Russia. Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

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The Blue Bird

Artist: Frank Cadogan Cowper (English, 1877-1958)

Date: Exhibited 1918

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private Collection

Description

Cowper shows the lovers enjoying one of these trysts, the princess holding a rope of pearls that the Blue Bird has evidently just given her. The story was retold by Andrew Lang in his Green Fairy Book (1892), one of the eleven 'coloured' Fairy Books that he produced for Longmans between 1889 and 1910.

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Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France first half of 17th century .

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Henrietta Maria of France circa 1636 . San Diego, Museum of Art by Anthony van Dyck

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The Death Bed of Madame Bovary by Albert Auguste Fourié (French, 1854--1937)

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Purple silk damask dress, 1830s

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Evening dress

French

1804–5

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Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

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Countess Alexander Nikolaevitch Lamsdorff (Maria Ivanovna Beck, 1835–1866)

Franz Xaver Winterhalter

1859

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The Empress Eugénie (Eugénie de Montijo, 1826–1920, Condesa de Teba)

Artist: Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, Menzenschwand 1805–1873 Frankfurt)

Date: 1854

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 36 1/2 x 29 in. (92.7 x 73.7 cm)

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Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at the Bal Costumé of 12 May 1842

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The Monarch of the Glen, Edwin Landseer, 1851

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Princess Alice of the United Kingdom

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Johan Zoffany - Queen Charlotte (1744-1818) with her Two Eldest Sons