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loquaciousconnoisseur: Jean-Baptiste Greuze The Souvenir (1787-89) Wallace Collection, London

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marsiouxpial: Iran Book Binding, 18th/19th century
masterpiecedaily: George Lambert The Red Shawl 1913
welovepaintings: Emile Levy (1826-1890)Death of OrpheusOil on canvas1866118 x 189 cm(3’ 10.46” x 6’ 2.41”)Musee d’Orsay (Paris, France)
flyingodiva: Friedrich van Amerling, Girl Reading
solopintura: Henrique Bernardelli
poisonwasthecure: Light of Harem (detail) Frederic Leighton 1880
fuckyeahpreraphaelites: EndymionArthur Hughes1870 
cavetocanvas: Thomas Couture, Reverie, 1840-41 From the Norton Simon Museum: This delicate painting by Thomas Couture is not a portrait but a tête d’expression: a study of the face intended to evoke a particular state of mind. The practice of infusing the depiction of a model’s face with a dreamy or wistful expression often made its way into portrait painting, particularly in portraits of women. In Reverie, exhibited at the Salon of 1841, a young girl peers suggestively out of the corners of her eyes, sizing up the viewer with adolescent curiosity. Her dewy cheeks, bedroom eyes and exposed décolletage put forth an aura of sexual availability that carried into, if subtly, the more traditional portraits of the mid-nineteenth century. Even though the tête d‘expression was a common academic exercise, Couture’s studies in particular had an impact on the artists of his day. For instance, Gustave Courbet’s moody self-portraits from the 1840s possess the same dreamy undertones. Likewise, Couture’s pupils, among them Édouard Manet and Marcellin Desboutin, were influenced by the veiled feminine seduction at work here.
saturnsdaughter: Ophelia, Joseph Kirkpatrick, 1872-1930
ponderful: Georges de Feure, Elegante pres d’une source.
deadpaint: Carlos Schwabe, Elysian Fields
svell: Eugène Delacroix, Medea, 1862.
opus53: Eugene Delacroix, Death of Ophelia, Oil on canvas, 1838
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