a dagger of the mind

[fordarkmornings]

Jan Toorop (Dutch, 1858-1928)

Two Muses, 1897

[fromtheheather]

Méditation. Madame Monet au canapé (c. 1871) - Claude Monet

[ddestroyangels]

Madame Pierre Gautreau (1859 – 1915) by Antonio de la Gandara, 1897

Gibbes Museum of Art, South Carolina

[fromtheheather]

Young Girl at the Window (1640) - Jan Victors

[oldpaintings]

Head of a St. Bernard Dog by Otto Eerelman (Dutch, 1839--1926)

[fromtheheather]

Jeune Italienne (c. 1877) - Thomas Couture

[theodorafrompluto]

Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and the Lady Anne (1896)

by Edwin Austin Abbey

[fromtheheather]

Faust's first sight of Marguerite (1915) - Frank Cadogan Cowper

[ddestroyangels]

Portrait of a Young Beauty by Albert Lynch

French, 1860 – 1950

[fromtheheather]

Le Portail central de Saint-Marc de Venise (1875) - Albert Maignan

[fordarkmornings]

Isaac Israëls (Dutch, 1865-1934)

Two Javanese Ladies, ca. 1920

[fromtheheather]

La Débâcle à Vétheuil, avec vue sur Lavacourt (1880) - Claude Monet

[frostedmagnolias]

Patterned Silk Dinner Dress

c. 1893

Augusta Auctions

[fromtheheather]

La Gare Saint-Lazare (1877) - Claude Monet

[7pleiades7]

The Blue Cup (1909) by Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (American, 1858 – 1923), oil on canvas, 126.6 cm (49.8 in) x 104.4 cm (41.1 in), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

[fromtheheather]

Dame agenouillée (La Grande-Duchesse Stéphanie de Bade)(1850-1874) - Thomas Couture

[fromtheheather]

#what a menacing way to depict someone…#i imagine time hasnt been so kind to the details but even still#standing in such a room with not a trace of the face

(tags via @puritycomplex)

this is actually really interesting to me because i hadn't thought about that before but it does look a little menacing now that you mention it! i think part of that is because it's a study for a larger painting (which apparently i forgot to note in this post? i did for the other studies i posted that were for the same painting but i guess i forgot for this one. but i edited the original post so its there now even if its a little late for that) and the full painting has a lot of people and light and all that but in the absence of all that she does look pretty isolated. according to the commentary on the museum website the point of the study was to work out how to paint the clothing so that's probably why she doesn't have much of a face but taken as its own piece of art it does have a kind of ominous effect. anyway if you're interested in more of the background on this painting, it's at the château de compiègne and they have the information about it here (it is in french but google translate should work fine)

[fromtheheather]

Cherry, Plum and Willow Trees (early 17th century) - Artist Unknown