thefroufrou

[galleryofunknowns]

Philippe Mercier (b.1689 - d.1760), ‘A Girl Holding a Cat’, about 1750, French, oil on canvas, currently in the collection of the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1760-1770 Overdress (robe à l’anglaise) (United East India Company)

painted and dyed cotton, partly lined with silk

(Victoria and Albert Museum)

[fawnvelveteen]

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Broken Mirror, 1763, oil on canvas, 56 x 46 cm (Wallace Collection, London)

[mode-dame]

Hat, c. 1720-1750

[lily-archipelago]

♡ larmoiredemathilde

[thepaintedchateau]

…on your journey…

…don’t forget to enjoy the view…

[a-l-ancien-regime]

Cygnes sur le bassin de Bacchus dans les jardins de Versailles à l’automne, par Gaston La Touche, 1898. © Saint-Cloud, Musée des Avelines-dépôt du Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

[thepaintedchateau]

…in solitude, we have our dreams to ourselves…

[history-of-fashion]

1789 Michel Garnier - The Poorly Defended Rose

(Minneapolis Institute of Art)

[quo-usque-tandem]

The White Hat by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

[a-l-ancien-regime]

Flowers in a rock. Painting by Elise Bruyere (1776-1842), 1836. 0,84 x 0,64 m. Beaux-Arts Museum, Rouen, France (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images) 

[mode-dame]

Robe à l'Anglaise, c. 1770-1790

from the Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris

[papillon-de-mai]

Gustave Jean Jacquet — Young Lady with a Black Hat. detail. 1878

[artist-watteau]

Nude with Right Arm Raised, 1718, Jean-Antoine Watteau

Medium: chalk,paper

[myfairylily]

Detail, ‘Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze’ by Jacques-Louis David 

[classic-art]

The Bird Cage

François Boucher, 1763

[dortan-lavancia]

François Boucher, né le 29 septembre 1703 à Paris où il est mort le 30 mai 1770