Western Elegance

A Love of Beauty

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The Triumph of Galatea (1511) by Raphael (Italian, 1483 – 1520), fresco, 295 cm (116.1 in) x 225 cm (88.5 in), Villa Farnesina, Rome

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Study of an Angel from Paradise Lost. 1867. Alexandre Cabanel French 1823-1889. drawing. http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

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Carl Gustav Carus - "Gothic window with telescope, Faust's study"

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Angel of death by Evelyn De Morgan (1881)

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Peder Mørk Mønsted - "Winter landscape, Holmstrup" (1927)

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Aurora Borealis, by Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900)

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An Arctic Summer: Boring Through the Pack in Melville Bay, by William Bradford, 1871

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Kirchenruine im Schnee (1853) - Carl Georg Adolph Hasenpflug

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Sunset in winter (Edmund Foerster, 1872)

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Jakob Böhme - Aurora (cropped) - 1682 - via Getty Open Contact

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Otto Lindberg - "Sailing at dusk" (1926)

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Alexei Savrasov (Russian, 1830-1897)

Winter Landscape, c. 1871

Oil on canvas

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News from afar, mid. 1860’s by Alfred Stevens (Belgian, 1823–1906)

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Nymphs Hunting (Nymphes Chasseresses) (1898) by Julius Leblanc Stewart (American, 1855 – 1919), oil on canvas, 140.3 x 111.8 cm (55.2 x 44 in), Unknown Location

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Tempest on the sea at night (1849) by Ivan Aivazovsky

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The First Union Jack, by George William Joy (1844- 1925)

A young naval officer who makes the young lady blush while she sews a union jack (which was introduced 1801, after Ireland joined the Union of Great Britain), possibly for his ship.