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Happy #MotheringSunday to those celebrating! 💐 In honour of mamas, aunties, grannies, & all who mother, here’s a small selection of lovely #18thCentury portraits of motherhood.🌸🥰
#ArtLovers

When I plot a novel, I feel like one of Macbeth’s witches stirring a bubbling cauldron as I determine my characters’ fates. I’m plotting today, so my #ArtLovers is Gardner’s 1775 “The Three Witches” featuring the D of Devonshire, Lady Melbourne, & Anne Damer.
@NPGLondon

Here’s an #ArtLovers puzzle for your Sunday afternoon. Without googling, what do you think Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s 1756 “Broken Eggs” is really about?

(Hints if needed: It isn’t about broken *eggs*. Why does the old woman scold the *young man*? What did he “break”?)
@metmuseum

If you’re ever in an art museum & you spy a Rococo painting of a lady dancing alone in a garden, impress your companions (or a stranger) by saying casually, from across the room, “Ah, I suspect that’s a Schall.” Our buddy Jean-Frédéric had a “type”.
#ArtLovers

@AustenDress The game the Cupids are playing!! 😍

Paintings were composed, painted, & overpainted, but sketches were quick. To appreciate these drawings, imagine these women before you: resting their feet, pausing at their instrument. Trinquesse bids them "Hold your pose" & the moment slips into eternity.
#ArtLovers

The companion piece to my earlier tweet (also 1750 by Boucher for Madame de Pompadour) is “The Interrupted Sleep”. Here, a young lover (the recipient of the letter?) awakens the shepherdess by tickling her nose with straw. Not sure what to love? I’ll make it a🧵. (1/5)
#ArtLovers

Francois Boucher painted the magnificent “The Love Letter” (1750) for Madame de Pompadour, chief official mistress to Louis XV. The two idealized shepherdesses tie a letter round a carrier pigeon’s neck. I wonder if the recipient will be pleased?
@ngadc
#ArtLovers

To me, weekends mean time with my kiddos, so here’s an innocent #18thCentury garden scene to celebrate. Trinquesse’s “Lady Playing a Guitar” is a delight & notable for its lack of trouble-causing Cupids! The gowns and faces are especially sweet. 🌸💛💐
#ArtLovers

The old man pushing the swing doesn’t notice the young man overcome by whatever he sees up those frothy pink skirts.

The painting was likely commissioned by the young man for private viewing. The woman is believed to be his mistress. The old man is possibly her husband. (2/4)