World Art Day - Jean Honoré Fragonard - 1732–1806- Happy Accident on the Swing

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(1806 - 1890), was a Viennese artist specialized in flower painting. He was a member of the Viennese Academy of Arts from 1843 to 1851 in the Flower and Fruit School and a pioneer in the field of chromolithography. https://t.co/piPCUQwHzF

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Seiro Niwaka Onna Geisha no Bu Tojin Shishi Sumo, by Kitagawa Utamaro (ca. 1754–1806)

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On se réveille sous les meilleurs auspices avec Fragonard (5 avril 1732 - 22 août 1806 ).

Peintre d'histoire, de genre et de paysages, il se spécialise dans le genre libertin et les scènes galantes.

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本日4月5日は『ジャン・オノレ・フラゴナール(1732-1806)』の生誕289年の誕生日です♪ 🇫🇷南仏・カンヌに近いグラースで生まれました。ロココ期のフランスの画家。
⭐フラゴナール美術館(グラース):https://t.co/5osAqbjKvM
右:「ぶらんこ」 ウォレス・コレクション(ロンドン)

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Vaincu en 1806 à Ulm, François II dut renoncer à son titre d'empereur germanique (le 6 août) sous la pression de Napoléon qui créa la Confédération du Rhin.

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Featured in The Print Gallery at The Map House this month are the intricate studies by great naturalist and explorer Charles Henry Dessalines d’Orbigny (1806-1876)

See the collection: https://t.co/UrGevC8Yki

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Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire–died 1806–whose political activism & fashion sense were widely lampooned, though the circumstances of her life are now seen as an example of female oppression by historical cultural & legal constructs that favoured male interests.

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"she moved with a simplicity that proved her to be unconscious of the charm which bound the world to her attraction" [Morning Chronicle]: died at 3.30am 1806, Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire

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“Woman Holding Up a Parasol” from the series Ten Classes of Women’s Physiognomy, by Kitagawa Utamaro (ca. 1754–1806)

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• $25,000 Cash Spectacular sold last night , 904 Washington Ave.,
• $6,000 sold at Newton 66, 1806 12th Ave. W.,
• $6,000 sold Gas, 2801 Hamilton Blvd.,

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“Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who was born in 1806
(illustrations by )

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Died in 1776: German-Danish painter (1716-76)

Portrait of of Orange-Nassau (1748-1806), 1763-76

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1806: Death James Barry RA. Burke encouraged him to move to London & financed Continental visit! Grand history paintings in classical style eg 6 part The Progress of Human Culture in , & 'King Lear weeping over the body of Cordelia'! https://t.co/aCGMZJT6Fm

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🐞 Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insekten, als eine Fortsetzung der von Büffonschen Naturgeschichte:
Berlin: J. Pauli, 1785-1806.
https://t.co/phX92XMaMN

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🐞 Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insekten, als eine Fortsetzung der von Büffonschen Naturgeschichte:
Berlin: J. Pauli, 1785-1806.
https://t.co/xXT1rpeAVP

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Happy
The heart and it's major vessels, in isolation. Engraving by Charles Bell from Anatomy of the Human Body, 1806.

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Александр Андреевич Иванов (1806-1858)

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One more for this evening - 'The Extinguisher' A misery old man counts his money by candlelight. Little does he know that death is about to drop a massive candle snuffer on him. William Daniell, after George Dance. 1806 ()

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M.Bison on his Imperial Throne - after Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's state portrait "Napoléon Ier sur le trône impérial" from 1806.

- Artwork by me ⚡️

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