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[mythologypaintings]

The Toilet of Venus

Artist: François Boucher (French, 703–1770)

Date: 1751

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

[royalty-nobility]

Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte of France, Duchess of Angoulême (1778-1851), known as Madame Royale

Artist: Antoine-Jean Gros (French, 1771-1835)

Date: 1819

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Palace of Versailles, Paris, France

Marie Thérèse of France

Marie-Thérèse (1778 – 1851) was the eldest child of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette of France, and their only child to reach adulthood. In 1799, she married her cousin Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, the eldest son of Charles X of France, henceforth becoming the Duchess of Angoulême. She was the only member of her immediate family to survive the French Revolution.

[thegikitiki]

Living Room Decor, 1967

[20thcenturyartgallery]

Embroidering

Artist: Victor Borisov-Musatov (Russian, 1870-1905)

Date: 1901

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

[paintingsandhistory]

Queen Victoria at the Tomb of Napoleon, 24 August 1855

Artist: Edward Matthew Ward (British, 1816-1879)

Date: 1860

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, London, United Kingdom

Description

On 24 August 1855, Queen Victoria visited Napoleon I’s Tomb at Les Invalides, Paris, during her historic State Visit to France - the first by a British monarch in over 400 years. Accompanied by Napoleon III, she paid respects to Britain's former foe, symbolizing a new alliance during the Crimean War and reconciliation.

[artemlegere]

The Play Scene in Hamlet

Artist: Daniel Maclise (Irish, 1806–1870)

Date: Exhibited 1842

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom

Description

The ‘play within a play’ in Hamlet was just the sort of dramatic caprice that attracted the Romantics to Shakespeare. Hamlet, prince of Denmark, arranges for strolling players to re-enact the murder of his father, the king, by his brother, Claudius; Claudius had succeeded to the throne. The ghost of Hamlet’s father had revealed the murder at the beginning of the play. Maclise shows the performance taking place in the hall of Elsinore Castle. Claudius is about to leap to his feet, and in doing so reveal his guilt.

[allegorypaintings]

Beauty and the Beast; a Satirical Allegory of Thomas Hope and his wife Louisa

Artist: Antoine Dubost (French, 1769-1825)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Oil painting

Collection: Private Collection

[royalty-nobility]

Louisa, Queen of Prussia (1776-1810)

Artist: Peter Edward Stroehling (German, 1768-c. 1826)

Date: c.1797-1803

Medium: Oil on copper

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, London, United Kingdom

Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1776 – 1810) was Queen of Prussia as the wife of King Frederick William III. The couple's happy, though short-lived, marriage produced nine children, including the future monarchs Frederick William IV of Prussia and William I, German Emperor.

Her legacy became cemented after her extraordinary 1807 meeting with French Emperor Napoleon I at Tilsit – she met with him to plead unsuccessfully for favorable terms after Prussia's disastrous losses in the War of the Fourth Coalition. She was already well loved by her subjects, but her meeting with Napoleon led Louise to become revered as "the soul of national virtue". Her early death at the age of thirty-four "preserved her youth in the memory of posterity", and caused Napoleon to reportedly remark that the king "has lost his best minister". The Order of Louise was founded by her grieving husband four years later as a female counterpart to the Iron Cross. In the 1920s, conservative and nationalist German women founded the Queen Louise League.