LES ANTIQUAIRES

L'héritage du passé

[history-of-fashion]

1800-1830 Unknown French artist - Portrait of a Lady

(Accorsi - Ometto Museum)

[mythologer]

Erato, Muse of Lyrical Poetry, 1800 "Oil on canvas, 273 x 176 cm" [Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA] - - Charles Meynier (French; 1768-1832)

Erato (ancient Greek. Ἐρατώ) is the muse of love poetry in Greek mythology, one of the nine muse-sisters, goddesses of science and art. Daughter of Zeus, god of thunder and lightning, king of all gods and people, and Mnemosyne.

[centuriespast]

MELBYE, Anton Sea at Night 1865 Oil on canvas, 54 x 80 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

[fleurdulys]

El anticuario - Ulpiano Checa y Sanz

[centuriespast]

Rebecca and Isaac Domenico Brandi (1683–1736) Kirklees Museums and Galleries

[ja-khajay]

that one extremely homoerotic painting of a babylonian man listening to a babylonian twink playing babylonian harp. that one

[ja-khajay]

yeah

[theotherwesley]

this is my favorite painting full stop

[adulthoodisokay]

that “babylonian twink” is King David

[hildegardavon]

Manner of François Boucher, 1703-1770

Venus reclining before a curtain attended by Cupid, n/d, oil on canvas, 79.4x129.5 cm

Private Collection

[hildegardavon]

Jan van Bijlert, ca.1597/98-1671 

Venus chastising Cupid, 1628, oil on canvas, 127.6x146.1 cm

Museum of Fine Arts (Houston),   Inv. 75.41

[hildegardavon]

Pierre Gobert, 1662-1744

Portrait of a lady in the dress of the goddess Hebe, n/d, oil on canvas, 138x115 cm

Private Collection

[fleurdulys]

An Allegory of Music - Carlos Barberis

[hildegardavon]

After Lucca Cambiaso, 1527-1585

Venus disarming Cupid, n/d, oil on canvas, 150.2x105.4 cm

Private Collection

[centuriespast]

Lady Magdalene Armytage unknown artist Kirklees Museums and Galleries

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1670 John Michael Wright - Sir Thomas Myddelton IV, 2nd Bt

(Chirk Castle)

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1730 Nicolas de Largillière - James IV Roettiers de La Tour

(Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens)

[history-of-fashion]

1837 Alexandre Hesse - Eugène Guyot, sub-prefect of Vendôme

(Private collection)

[artist-joshua-reynolds]

Alexander, 10th Duke of Hamilton, 1782, Joshua Reynolds

Medium: oil,canvas

[thomas-sully]

Jean Terford David, 1813, Thomas Sully