Les dames en rose, les dames en rouge

Self-portrait, Katarina Ivanovic, circa 1830s.

Marie-Anne de Châteauneuf - mademoiselle Duclos - actress, in the role of Ariane, by Nicolas de Largillière, circa 1712.

 Mary Stuart, the Princess Royal, studio of Gerrit van Honthorst, circa 1647.

Lavinia Fenton, actress, by George Knapton (?), circa 1739.

Lady Anne Montagu, by Daniël Mijtens, 1626.

 Mrs. Thomas Edwards Freeman, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, circa 1778.

Louise Françoise, duchesse de Bourbon, "mademoiselle de Nantes", by François de Troy, circa 1688-93.

Augusta, Princess of Wales, by Jean-Baptiste van Loo, 1742.

Mademoiselle Louise Jacquet, actress, by Jean-Étienne Liotard, circa 1748-52.

Portrait of a Woman, by Juan Carreño de Miranda, circa 1650-70.

Portrait of a Woman (Balia dei Medici?), by Paris Bordone, circa 1545.

Queen Isabel II of Spain, unknown painter, 1858.

Princess Margarita Ivanovna Dolgorukaya, by Vladimir Borovikovsky, 1811.

Portrait of a Lady, by Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux, circa late 1780s.

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Miniature attributed to Jean-Baptiste Isabey. subject unknown, circa 1790.

Unknown.

Portrait of a Lady with a Squirrel, by Francesco Montemezzano, circa 1565.

Prince Nikolai Saltykov, by Franz Kruger, 1850.

Vivien Leigh, publicity for "Lady Hamilton" ("That Hamilton Woman"), 1940-1.

The marquise de Pompadour at her dressing table, by François Boucher, circa 1750-58.

John Smith the Engraver, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1696.

 Napoleon the Lawmaker, by Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse, 1833.

Orson Welles, by Horst P. Horst, 1938.

The Spree waterside at Stralau, by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1817.

Apollo and Marpessa, by John Flaxman, circa 1790–94.

Bacchanal, by John Koch, 1952.

Rex Whistler, by Cecil Beaton, 1927.

Portrait of Marie Stuck (the artist's daughter), by Franz von Stuck, 1913.

Princess Victoria Alexandra Olga Mary of Wales, daughter of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, by Philip de László, 1907.

Silversmith Thomas Germain and his wife Anne-Denise Gauchelet, by Nicolas de Largillière, 1736.

Portrait of a Man, by Andrea del Sarto, circa 1517.

Lady Ann Somerset, Countess of Northampton at the age of about 14, attributed to Jean-Étienne Liotard, circa 1755.

Portrait of Don Andrés de Andrade y la Cal, by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, circa 1665-72.

Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont, on the occasion of his elevation to the Earldom, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, circa 1767.

Michel Fokine and Tamara Karsavina (or Vera Fokina?) in Fokine's L'Oiseau de feu ("The Firebird"), circa 1910.

Miniature by Louis-Lié Périn-Salbreux, subject unknown, circa 1780s.

Venus and Cupid, attributed to Roeloff van Zijl, circa 1625.

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Jupiter Disguised as Diana Seducing Callisto, by Gerrit van Honthorst, circa 1625-1650.

I have a blog-post folder and several sub-folders on my computer. As I flounce about the internet, whenever I find an image, anything I find beautiful or intriguing, I copy it - if I can - and toss it into one of my blog-related folders. Perhaps you can guess where this acquisitiveness has led me. The folders are now very full. So full that I have ever more difficulty finding, sorting things. Difficulty seeing the visual or thematic threads that I would gather together to make up a post. So, along with better organizing - yet more sub-folders - from now on, every so often I'll try and do a bit of theme-less, story-less sharing. These, then, are some images I really enjoy. That is all!

The Marriage of Napoléon I and Marie Louise, 2 April 1810, by Georges Rouget, 1811.

Miniature by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, circa late 1780s.

Photograph identified as being taken in Tokyo during the Thirties.

Mirza Abu'l Hassan Khan, Ambassador for the Shah of Persia, by William Beechey, 1809 or 1810.

Portrait of a Young Woman, by Giovanni Battista Moroni, circa 1560s-70s.

Irina Alexandrovna, Princess Yusupova, by Edward Steichen, 1924.

Lydia Pickering Williams, by Gilbert Stuart, 1824.

Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, Catalina, 1939.

Elisabeth Farnese, Princess of Parma and Queen of Spain, by Jean Ranc, 1723.

The Surprise, by Claude-Marie Dubufe, before 1827.

The Guitarist, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1757.

Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge, by William Beechey, 1818.

Michèle Morgan, circa 1941.

Jean-Louis Buisson-Boissier, by Jean-Étienne Liotard, circa 1762-66.

Carolina Grassi and Bianca Bignami, the sisters Gabrini, by Francesco Hayez,1835.

St. Petersburg (?), circa prior to 1914.

Louis-Philippe Refuses the Crown of Belgium, 17 February 1831, by Nicolas Gosse, 1836.

Miniature by Louis-Lié Périn-Salbreux, circa 1790s.