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Léon Bakst, born in 1866, is best known for his colourful costume and set designs for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes

‘The Sleeping Beauty: The Princess and the Court Fall Asleep for a Hundred Years’ by Léon Bakst (1866–1924) 📸

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2020-05-10

For more brothers & associated artists’ periodical illusrations in collections. Arthur Hughes ‘Carmina Nuptialia’ 1869, Edward Hughes ‘Alice’ 1866, Rebecca Solomon ‘The Model’s Story’ 1864 and Ford Maddox Brown ‘The Traveller’ 1869

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2020-05-06

COMPOSICIÓN OCHO de Wassily Kandinsky (1866, Moscú, 1944)
Año: 1923
óleo sobre tela
Se encuentra en: Museo Solomon R. Guggenheim
Las influencias artísticas principales de este pintor fueron Monet, Fauves y Matisse. 

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2020-04-02

''The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.''
—Victor Hugo

Here, Pieuvre avec les initiales V.H., ("Octopus with the initials V.H."), 1866, by Hugo

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2020-02-26

Fancy a midweek moment of sweet idleness?! If so join these luscious ladies in their leisure in this week's &
'Il Dolce Far Niente' c.1866, retouched mid 1870s, Schaeffer Collection
'Dolce Far Niente' 1880, Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery

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2020-01-22

Birthday in the park: Paul Gavarni..... or Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier, 1804-1866, illustrator......................https://t.co/OjBpn7XWkC

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2020-01-13

Fish bitters bottle, “W.H. Ware / Patented 1866,” Pennsylvania, 1866-75, light to medium lime green, just over 11½" tall, $32,760 at Glass Works Auctions. Only a few of these are known to exist in the pure green color

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2019-11-13

Jean-François Millet,
“Falling Leaves,” c. 1866,
pastel and conté crayon on wove paper.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection).

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2019-10-31

Tal día como hoy del año 1866, según el calendario Gregoriano, nacía Vasili Kandinsky

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2018-12-16

A Woman at the Fountain with Rising Moon, 1866, by Ferdinand Knab (1834 - 1902)

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2018-09-02

“It is extraordinary to see the sea; what a spectacle! She is so unfettered that one wonders whether it is possible that she again become calm.” A life well lived. Happy Birthday Claude Monet! Claude Monet, Seascape, Storm, 1866, oil on canvas. The Clark, 1955.561

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2017-11-15

“...I do not want art for a few; any more than education for a few; or freedom for a few... ” William Morris

🎨 Cattle by a Stream

👨‍🎨 Arnold Marc Gorter (1866, Almelo – 1933, Amsterdam), was a 19th-century landscape painter from the Northern Netherlands.

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Solomon, detail from Heliogabulus, High Priest of the Sun and Emperor of Rome, 118 - 122AD (1866, Private Collection)

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2017-02-10

1866, 1:45pm- Engineer, Parkin Jeffcock, received a telegram stating “The Oaks pit is on fire. Come directly.”

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2016-12-12

The Order of the Snake: 1866, anyone?

We'd play it 🎮

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2015-02-16

Happy B'day to the Russian painter born today in 1866, father of the abstract art

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