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stilllifequickheart:

Peder Ilsted

Woman Sewing by the Window

1886

bygoneyears:

The Charity of St. Elizabeth of Hungary by Edmund Blair Leighton, 1895

oldbookillustrations:

Éloa.

From Le Portefeuille d’un Très Vieux Garçon (The Wallet of a Very Old Bachelor), by Albert Robida, illustrated by the author, Paris, 1885.

(Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

Headpiece vignette to chapter one, From Le Portefeuille d’un Très Vieux Garçon (The Wallet of a Very Old Bachelor), by Albert Robida, illustrated by the author, Paris, 1885.

(Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

Portrait of the author.

Frontispiece from Le Portefeuille d’un Très Vieux Garçon (The Wallet of a Very Old Bachelor), by Albert Robida, illustrated by the author, Paris, 1885.

(Source: archive.org)

worldpaintings:

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Symphony in White No 2: The Little White Girl, 1864, oil on canvas, Tate Gallery, London.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American-born, British-based artist. Averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo “art for art’s sake”, the idea that his paintings should have any meaning beyond what could be seen on the canvas.

The model for this painting was Whistler’s mistress, Joanna Hiffernan, called Jo. For a few years, this beautiful, red-haired Irishwoman managed Whistler’s affairs, keeping his house and assisting him with the sale of his work. To give herself respectability, she called herself Mrs. Abbott; her drunken father also referred to Whistler as ‘my son-in-law’. She sat for many of his pictures.

aleyma:

Edgar Degas, Helene Rouart in Her Father’s Study, 1886.

aleyma:

Giovanni Boldini, Peaceful Days, 1871.

lizchenr:

model - Lizchen_R

photographer - Гала (Gala)

lizchenr:

model - Lizchen_R

photographer - Гала (Gala)