#1759

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Étienne Maurice Falconet (French, 1716-1791) Venus Nursing Cupid, ca.1759 Washington, DC

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Robe à la française with matching stomacher and petticoat ca. 1755 - 1760

Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Battle of Quiberon Bay near coast of France - HMS Royal George, by RadoJavor, 2008

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Banyan

c.1750

Coromandel Coast, India for Western Market

LACMA (Accession Number: M.2005.42)

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A Father’s Love

Please kiss my son for me

Colonel Gilbert de La Fayette to his sister Mlle du Motier, July 16, 1759. Colonel de La Fayette would die two weeks later, on August 1.

Online exhibition, LaFayette: Hero of Two worlds, Raised In A World Of Privilege, Cornell University (09.08.2025).

Kiss our dear Henriette twenty times for me.

Marquis de La Fayette to his wife Adrienne de La Fayette, March 7, 1777. The Marquis de La Fayette would go on to life another 57 years.

Idzerda Stanley J. et al., editors, Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776–1790, Volume 1, December 7, 1776–March 30, 1778, Cornell University Press, 1977, p. 17.

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Shion (Oni) from That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

"This is her "upgraded" form."

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Woman Taking Her Tea, by Pierre Filloeul, after Jean Simeon Chardin, 1759

From the Met Museum

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