Le Bien Aimé

My name is Sean, I am a 31 year old Scot with a love of the 18th century and history and art in general. I mainly post pictures that have caught my eye, either because they are interesting or unusual or simply because they are charming. I often feel that I should write more and inject a little personality into this blog because I suppose it might seem a little cold, which is not an accurate reflection of me. I'll get round to it someday! In the meantime feel free to message or to ask me anything, however odd, I'll answer as best I can.

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Edme Bouchardon - Chaumont - en - Bassigny 1698 - 1762 París

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Louis-Léopold Boilly - Self portrait

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William MacArthur, Study of Two Males With a Wheel, 1906

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Male Nude. 18th.century. charcoal heightened with white chalk.                           http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

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Why am I only now finding out that the (in?)famous painting by Boucher depicting a woman using a bourdaloue was designed to be placed behind a “normal” portrait of the same woman?

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Portrait of Prince Eugène de Beauharnais (1781-1824) at the age of Fifteen, Antoine Jean Gros (1771-1835)

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“Man Stepping to the Right” by Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825). French painter in the Neoclassical style. Princeton University Art Museum, USA. Black chalk with white highlights.

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Academic Study of a Male Nude. 18th.century. Antonio Martinez Espinosa Spanish 1741-1789. sanguine on paper.    http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

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Standing Male Nude Carrying a Block on his Shoulder. 19th.century. Louis Lopez Spanish. charcoal on paper. collection of Bellas Artes Spain.    http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

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A Male Nude Study from Behind. Francesco Maria Carrafa Italian 1580-1642. sanguine and chalk on paper.    http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

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Edward Francis Burney (1760–1848) - Académie -  Seated Male Nude - a circa 1790-1800 Study in the Academic Style.

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For the Love of a Venusian Day…Pieter van Lint or Peter van Lint (1609–1690), a Flemish painter, draughtsman and designer of tapestries.

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“No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.”

— Alan Bullock (1914-2004) British historian (via philosophicalconservatism)

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Nicolas de Largillière (1656-1746), Portrait présumé de Jean André Soubry (1703-1774) 

(Presumed Portrait of Jean André Soubry (1703-1774)), ca. 1729, oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm.

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Reclining Male Nude. 18th.century. Jacques Dumont le Romain French 1701-1781. red with white chalk highlights on paper.     http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

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Art

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An Allegory of Apollo and Minerva as Wisdom and the Arts. 18th.century. Simon Julien French 1735-1800. oil/canvas.    http://hadrian6.tumblr.com