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Antoinette Cécile Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot (Paris, 1784 -1845)
Portrait d'Hortense Ballu, future Mme Alphonse Jacob-Desmalter, 1831.
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François Hubert Drouais (Paris, 1727 -1775)
Louise-Élisabeth de Maillé Karman, later Marquise de Soran, lady-in-waiting to Mrs Clotilde and Mrs Elisabeth, 1757.
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Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Leiden 1606–1669)
Portrait of a woman with a fan, 1633.
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Anton Mauve.
Morning ride along the beach, 1876.
Another favourite of mine.
For me, it has the feel of a Tom
Roberts beach work:
Holiday sketch at Coogee, 1888.
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Grasse, 1732 -1806)
Portrait de Marie-Anne-Eléonore, comtesse de Grave (1730-1807), dit autrefois Portrait de Marie-Madeleine Guimard (1743-1816), 1769.
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French school.
Jacques Lemoyne de Morgues (1533-88)
Recto: Bugloss and Painted Lady, c.1575.
Verso: Heartsease or Wild Pansy, c.1575.
Collection © @V_and_A
#FloralArt #Butterfly
Paris.
François Boucher (1703-1770)
Portrait of Madame de Pompadour, 1758.
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Made in Byzantine Egypt.
Coptic.
Relief Frieze, 6th c.
Pinewood with traces of polychromy. A lion and leopard sprint toward the center...Peacocks of paradise guard a gemmed cross between billowing curtains, draped and held behind two columns.
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