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musée accidentel

[enchantedbook]

"The Shooting Star" (L'Étoile filante) by J. J. Grandville, 1849.

[frostedmagnolias]

Pendant

c. 1900

by Eugène Grasset (designer) & Maison Vever (jeweler)

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

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Gustave Doré 

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⭐️ The naturalist’s miscellany, or Coloured figures of natural objects. London: Printed for Nodder & Co., 1789-1813.

[ohcaptainhartford]

Tête de mort et pot à onguent, 1926

Henry Huerre

(Musée départemental breton)

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'dark dry sand drawing: compton bay, isle of wight, 6/87' in hand to earth: andy goldsworthy sculpture 1976-1990 (1990)

[thephotoregistry]

Friends, Roman, Countrymen, c. 1920

Edward Steichen

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice.’

[text id: my fist has always been clenched around the handle of an invisible suitcase. / i am always ready to leave. / there is not a single room in this world where i belong.]

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Ginkgo chair by Claude Lalanne

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Eighth Heaven the Sphere of the Fixed Stars from Dante’s Divine Comedy, 1564

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[psikonauti]

Arnaud Rochard (French, b. 1986)

Golden Age VI, 2019

Wood engraving and monotype on Japanese paper

[ohcaptainhartford]

Yan'Dargent

Les Lavandières de la nuit, 1861

Quimper, musée des beaux-arts

(source)

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Franz Kline Painting No. 7 1952 Oil on canvas 57 1/2 x 81 3/4 inches (146 x 207.6 cm) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

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Plate no. 39 of Aby Warburg’s “Bilderatlas Mnemosyne (1925-1929) with reproductions of Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus,” “Primavera” and “Pallas and the Centaur” Photo: Wootton/fluid. The Warburg Institute, London.

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Félix Vallotton, Le Coup de vent (The Gust of Wind), 1894