galerie de peinture.

[courtingwonder]

Hiroshige - Fukagawa Lumberyards (1856)

[learnelle]

Feminine Painting Details

[classicalcanvas]

Title: The Burning of the Houses of Parliament

Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner

Date: 1834

Style: Romanticism

Genre: Cityscape

[antoniettabrandeisova]

Dance of flowers Hans Zatzka (Austrian, 1859– 1945)

[sovietpostcards]

‘Books are the source of knowledge. Citizens, keep libraries safe.’ ‘Citizens, protect masterpieces.’

Posters by Nikolai Kupreyanov (Russia, 1919)

[lolita-wardrobe]

A Timeline of Women’s Fashion from 1784-1970 (source: http://kottke.org/17/07/a-timeline-of-womens-fashion-from-1784-1970)

[thehistoricalseamstress]

such a useful reference to see the transition of styles 

[commonspeedwell]

The Blue Dress (Detail)

Édouard Frédéric Wilhelm Richter

[tiny-librarian]

On this day in history, August 2nd, in 1830, Marie Therese Charlotte, the daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, was briefly Queen of France.

Charles X abdicated the throne in favour of his son, Louis Antoine, who was Marie Therese’s husband. In the twenty minutes between the time Charles reluctantly abdicated, and the time his son equally reluctantly did the same in favour of his young nephew, she was considered Queen of France.

[papillon-de-mai]

Sir Godfrey Kneller — Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough. details. 1702

[russian-style]

Views of the Russian North by Yuri Ushakov, 1960s. 

The wooden churches from the paintings are very old - most of them were built in the 16th-17th centuries. In those times the Russian North was a wealthy trading region, with numerous cities and villages. 

Wooden architecture is traditional to the Russian North; and the best examples of it still survived. Despite nowadays the situation with the economics and population in the region is merely disastrous. 

(By the way Zvyagintsev’s movie “Leviathan"is set  in the Russian North) 

[jaded-mandarin]

Sir Thomas Lawrence. Unfinished portrait of Emilia, Lady Cahir, later Countess of Glengall, 1805.

[hoaxvault]

Cornelis van Spaendonck, Still Life with Flowers, 1789 (detail)

[feuerschutz]

Antoine Pesne (1683–1757), a Prussian painter of French origin.

The images are not mine. All credits belong to their authors.

Die Bilder stammen nicht von mir. Alle Rechte liegen bei den jeweiligen Autoren.

[artist-millais]

Rosalind In The Forest, John Everett Millais

[loumargi]

Luis Veldrof, aposentador mayor y conserje del Real Palacio - portrait by Vicente López y Portaña, 1823 detail

[books0977]

Madame Helleu Reading. Paul César Helleu (French, 1859-1927). Drawing. Red and black chalk heightened with white on paper.

Helleu often did quick drawings of his wife Alice. The attractive Madame Helleu dressed regularly in fine clothing from leading couturier houses, including Worth and Chanel, and presented to Helleu a delightful subject.

[detailedart]

Detail: Aurora and Cephalus, 1810, by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin.