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Vigée Le Brun died in Paris, aged 86. Her ravishing work is her epitaph & demonstration of her determination to paint no matter what challenges were thrown at her. Madame Baudin (1835), A Lady (1831) & Aglaé Angélique Gabrielle de Gramont (1824)
Day two of our portrait and figure drawings posts - this study of an unknown, probably Welsh, woman is by Joshua Cristall (1768-1847). Signed and dated 1824, it is in almost perfect condition #joshuacristall #portrait #portraiture #drawings #watercolour #portraitcatalogue
Born #OnThisDay in 1771: French painter #AntoineJeanGros (1771-1835)
Portrait of Count Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756-1832), 1824
#Gros #FrenchArt
Harpies:
1. All Will Fall (Todos caerán), Francisco de Goya, 1797-1798.
2. The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides, William Blake, 1824-7.
3. Harpies in the infernal wood, from Inferno XIII, Gustave Doré, 1861.
4. Harpy, Edvard Munch, 1899.
#art #creatures
ArtePerLArte
Ercole Calvi (1824/1900)
Riva degli Schiavoni-Venezia, 1868
"Vedutismo verso il Paesaggismo" @BrindusaB1 @lagatta4739 @karmendida @scastaldi9 @matibo11 @ValerioLivia @migliaccio31 @NadiaZanelli1 @bmarczewska @ampomata @lissablu68 @Rebeka80721106 @BaroneZaza70
🦴 Description des coquilles fossiles des environs de Paris /.
Paris: L'auteur, chez Bechet jeune [etc.]1824-[1837].
https://t.co/yJls9yAEw9
Margaret Meen (1755-1824) was an English watercolour artist and teacher.⠀
In 1790 she published “Exotic plants from the Royal Gardens at Kew” in 1790. https://t.co/y4vCnisDP1
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#HerNaturalHistory #womensday #vrouwendag
The National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, later renamed the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, was formed by Sir William Hillerby on 4th March 1824. Happy birthday RNLI.
@fakingstarwars @LinkVoximilian @JediNewsUK @starwarstuff @starwars247info @StarWarsAbsolut @StarWarsRadar Happy 52nd Birthday to Daniel Craig, he played FN-1824 in #StarWars #TheForceAwakens. May he have a good one.
Image: Northern Sea in the Moonlight🌕, Caspar David Friedrich, between 1823 and 1824
#art #landscape #painting #paintingoftheday
#OnThisDay in 1824, tightrope walker and acrobat Charles Blondin was born.
https://t.co/pbnbULutgN
Born #OnThisDay in 1746: #MariaAmaliaofAustria (1746-1804), Duchess of Parma, daughter of #EmpressMariaTheresa
Portrait by Carlo Angelo dal Verme (1748-1824), 1772
#Habsburg
Galleria nazionale di Parma
Portrait of Count Dmitri Nikolaevich Sheremetev, 1824 #orestkiprensky #kiprensky
Vigée Le Brun died in Paris, aged 86. Her ravishing work is her epitaph & demonstration of her determination to paint no matter what challenges were thrown at her. Madame Baudin (1835), A Lady (1831) & Aglaé Angélique Gabrielle de Gramont (1824)