Journal of Art in Societyさんのイラストまとめ

Think your renovations are tricky? ~ here’s the British Museum Reading Room being spruced up in 1907 (Muirhead Bone)

Les Misérables author Victor Hugo, based in Guernsey, was also a prolific artist ~ here’s a sampling (1850s)

From Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables 1862 ~ Bayard’s original pic of Cosette, later the commercialised face of Les Miz

Take a gondola ride round Venice with John Singer Sargent (Venice, 1898-1913)

Wm Heath Robinson’s rollicking illustrations for Rudyard Kipling’s 'A Song of the English' (1909)

Magnificently-preserved frescoes from the Roman Villa of Livia, wife of the Emperor Augustus (Nat Roman Museum)

Henri Rivière combined Impressionism and Japanese prints in these scenes of 19/20C French life

Henry Tonks caricatures his friend (and fellow war artist) in “John Singer Sargent Painting” 1918

Swiss-German artist Paul Klee, who died #OTD 1940, went to Tunisia in 1914 ~ “the colour possesses me”, he said

@todayisartday @DebbieGarnet @PhillipsMuseum Fascinating to compare Renoir's version of Caillebotte with a photo!