L a - b e a u t é - s a u v e r a - l e - m o n d e ~ D o s t o ï e v s k i

L a - b e a u t é - s a u v e r a - l e - m o n d e  ~  D o s t o ï e v s k i



Sunday, May 10, 2020

Randomly XVII


 A charcoal burner of the Transatlantic Company of Fort-de-France, Martinique, circa 1900.
Portrait of madame Larmoyer, by Antoine Vestier, 1804.
Courtesy Stephen Rutledge.
 In Poppyland, by John Ottis Adams, 1901.
Courtesy "Andre Duveen."
Caricature of Joan Crawford on the cover of Cinearte, February 1936.
 The Farmer in the Artist’s Studio, by Heinrich von Rustige, circa 1839.
Portrait of the Danish Naval officer Louis de Coninck, by Friedrich Carl Gröger, circa first quarter of the nineteenth century.
Self-portrait, by Salomon Adler, circa second half of the seventeenth century.
 Self-portrait, by Judith Leyster, circa 1630.
The Allegory of Painting, by Gerrit van Honthorst, 1648.
Wrestling Match, by Michiel Sweerts, 1649.
Fighting Putti, by Guido Reni, 1625.
"Joe Stecher demonstrates head scissors", 1918.
Semele and Jupiter, by Paolo Pagani, circa 1693.
 Portrait of Federico II Gonzaga, by Titian, circa 1529.
 Bust of Caracalla, Italian, nineteenth century.
Courtesy Ralf De Jonge.
Capt. William T. Shorey and his wife Julia Shelton, with their daughters Zenobia and Victoria, circa 1910.
La Familia Basabe, Julio Romero de Torres, 1919. 
Nature morte aux citrons, by François-Emile Barraud, 1921.
Atalanta’s Eclipse, by Charles Meere, 1938.
Courtesy Stephen Rutledge.
Portrait of Luiza Pesjak, by Mihael Stroj, 1855.
Netherlandish artist, active in England, circa 1600.
Bildnis eines jungen Mannes, by Auguste Alexius Canzi, 1832.
Miškinė in Lithuania, by Petras Kalpokas, 1945.
Josefa del Águila y Ceballos Alvarado y Álvarez de Faria, wife of José de Narváez Porcel, II vizconde de Aliatar, by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, 1852.
The Blacksmith, by Frank Leyendecker, 1922 (?).
Academic male nude, by Théodore Géricault, circa first quarter of the nineteenth century.
 The Annunciation  to the Shepherds, attributed to Théodore Gericault, circa first quarter of the nineteenth century.
Charles Ferdinand d'Artois, duc de Berry, en uniforme de la cavalerie noble de l'Armée de Condé pendant son exil à Edimbourg, by Henri-Pierre Danloux, 1796.
The comtesse de Castiglione, by Pierre-Louis Pierson, circa 1865. (Two images.)
Amity, by Bernard Fleetwood-Walker, 1933.
Venus and Adonis, by Arthur Kampf, 1939.
Courtesy Ralf De Jonge.
 Blue Landscape, by Stefan Popescu, 1913.
Cain Killing Abel, by Bartolomeo Manfredi, circa 1610.
Cain and Abel, by Svend Rathsack, 1910.
Three window dressers, by John Rutherford Boyd, circa 1930s.
Portrait of Laura Colton Chapin, by William Sidney Mount, 1833.
Columbia Varsity Eight at the Poughkeepsie Boathouse, 1910.
Courtesy Stephen Rutledge.
Antoine Philippe de La Trémoille, Prince de Talmont, by Léon Cogniet, copy after Guérin, commissioned by Charles X in 1826.
Sweden, 1943.
"Mrs. Hugh J. Chisholm Jr. (Bridget Bate Tichenor) in a coat of red and black broadcloth, red silk jersey dress. From Nicole de Paris.”, by Horst P. Horst, 1939.
Courtesy Paul Ellis.
Portrait of a Lady, by Konstantin Egorovich Makovsky, 1883.
Daguerreotype portrait of an Iroquois man with hand painted detail, circa 1852.
The guardsman Alexei Yakovlevich Okhotnikov, reputed lover of Empress Elisaveta Alexeievna, unknown artist, before 1807.
The Artist's Wife, by Charles Haigh-Wood, circa 1890s.
Nu masculin de dos, by Edouard Antoine Naudin, 1840.
Unknown title, by Kenne Grégoire, circa 2010.
Ernest Long, marine engineer, arrested for "crossdressing", 1922.
Gamblers, by Pavel Fedotov, 1852.
Portrait of the marquise de Grollier, by Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1788.



2 comments:

  1. So many images, "montageous eclectis"! Mes favoris- M.Larmoyer and her Directoire guitar-harp, 3- domestic bliss of two men, 4- Adams field of poppies, 6- Ms Crawford must have had a fit when she saw that. 11- dont tell anyone, but the lions are tranquilized. -12- a girl with her prized chicken, give her the blue ribbon! 15- Clark Gable and Errol Flynn eat your hearts out! 21- Prince and best friend 23/24- garden party with hors d'oeuvres and champagne 27-lemons, cause I like them! 33- pride of car ownership and status 34- Lithuanian trees 48- her name must be Daisy 52- Les dandys 54- Romanian trees 56- Cain is quite able! 57-habiller le mannequin 60-le samourai 61- the real stars of the show! 64- lovely coat 65-ladies who lunch 70-deux belles femmes 71-shy guy
    75-strong, luminous back who would not want him for a lover 76-luminous table beautifully set 78-salon du hasard
    All the dignified portraits either painted or photographed - Rj/IE

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