art

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Temple of Hathor in Dandara, Egypt 1900-1920

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Young & old - self-portraits by famous artist at diffrent ages

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Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Princess Elizaveta Esperovna Troubetzkaya, formerly Princess Belosselskaya-Belozerskaya, (1859)

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Isaac Levitan (1860-1900) | Forest edge, 1885

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Vicente López y Portaña María Cristina de Borbón-Dos Sicilias, reina de España (detail) 1830 Museo Nacional del Prado

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1793 (detail) Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun.

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   Remnants of an Army, 1879, oil on canvas by Elizabeth Southerden Thompson, Lady Butler, British, 1846-1933. Tate Britain, London, England.

   This painting shows William Brydon at the gates of Jalalabad. He was the last of 16,500 men evacuated from Kabul in the retreat of 1842.

   Elizabeth Thompson was one of the few female artists to gain fame for her history paintings and especially military battle scenes. 

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Large (Clark Art Museum)

Thomas Rowlandson’s comic ink drawing The Cat-astrophe, or Crash to My Grandmother’s Old China, from around 1800, demonstrates that some puns are forever.

Upstairs, three women—one of them young and fashionably attired, two of them rather older—look on in shock and horror as a little pounce of cats bounds down the stairs, tripping the two servants who carry the referred-to China.

The main purpose of such a scene is simply humor.

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nude descending a staircase, no. 3

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Soter Małachowski Jaxa

“Capri”

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Wojciech Weiss - Parisian woman, 1900                

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Portrait of a lady by Vittorio Matteo Corcos, 1880

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Marie-Anne Martinozzi (née Mancini), Duchess of Bouillon by Benedetto Gennari

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Fleurs, 1860, Jean Benner

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Sir Edward John Poynter

English, 1836-1919

Pea Blossoms, 1890 (detail)

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Josep Tapiró i Baró, Parache, the Dancer (detail)

c.1880

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Josep Tapiró i Baró, Berber bride (details)

c.1896