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@SandRussellArt I would say just about ANY form of pastoral "labour" that can be performed in a pretty petticoat & end in a lovers' tryst!
❄️+ 🌨+💨=now. Would gladly take up the "grueling" role of gardener/grape gatherer/reaper/shepherd in #JHFragonard's sunny scènes champêtres
Not so PC examples of porcelain: "Putti as Africa & Europe" 1760, "Audience of the Chinese Emperor" 1766, & "Lady at her Breakfast" 1737-44
Les natures mortes de #FantinLatour: plus que la précision, présence du vague.
WARNING self-promo‼️title of my #AAH2017 paper-Transpositions in Steam & Mist: Fantin-Latour & the Re-Imagining of Der Ring des Nibelungen
Instant cheer: the furious pitter-patter of this famous dachshund on-the-go😜Balla's "Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash" @AlbrightKnox #MuseumDogs
Petty jealousy. Very pretty. Porcelain rendition of #FrançoisBoucher's 'Le Jaloux' by Van der Voorst for the Manufacture de Vincennes, 1752.
Cat lovers take note of room 45 @ngadc ! Goltzius' docile kitty vs. Rubens' menacing pride of lions.