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Here is Madame du Barry, fabulous floozy, by Vigee Le Brun (1781, @philamuseum).
She started her day at 9am, with a cup of hot chocolate.
@lookingthinking It's Burne Jones' Vesper The Evening Star (1872, Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection)
@onefrontier Definitely! I went to an exhibition at Prague's Mucha Museum a few years ago and found likewise: his colours are more muted and subtle than I'd be lead to expect from reproductions. I found them more beautiful.
Oh sigh, it's so warm; one fears the sun is against me, what with being a redhead and all.
@ProfJuneG I could probably do the puff ball hair now I reckon. As a redhead, I could definitely do the green!
@ArtAesthete would happily have Sargent and be Madame X, I reckon?
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary But Martha Was Cumbered About Much Serving
#Blake
Manet, A Bundle of Asparagus (1880, Wallraf Richartz Museum, Cologne).
Manet was paid 1000 francs for this work by Charles Ephrussi, which was 200 more than the original commissioned.
Helleu, Consuelo Vanderbilt the Duchess of Marlborough (1903)