Randomly IV

Marion Davies, in "Beverly of Graustark", 1926.

Jean Alut l'ainé, miniature by Pierre Chasselat, circa 1780s.

Reservoir at Villa Falconieri, Frascati, by Maxfield Parrish, 1903.

Unknown, nd.

David Garrick and Eva Maria Garrick, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1772-73.

Comte Étienne de Beaumont and his wife Edith, dressed in costumes of the comte's design, 1920s.

Erato, Muse of Lyric Poetry and Cupid, by Charles Meynier, 1798-1800.

Unknown, nd.

Alexander II after his assassination, by Konstantin Makovsky, 1881.
(The Tsar had been - literally - blown up; it would prove difficult to arrange his corpse in a presentable manner.)

Garden Steps Leading to the Artist's Studio on Blegdammen, by Christen Købke, circa 1845.

Figure study, by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, nd.

 A Woodland Bather, by Henry Scott Tuke, before 1893.

Models, circa 1915.

An Elegant Figure Playing a Guitar at a Balustrade With a Macaw, by Jan Josef Horemans the Elder, circa early 18th century.

Flora, by Alexander Roslin, 1755.

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

Vivien Leigh as Lady Macbeth, photograph by Angus McBean, 1955.

Parc de St. Cloud, by Constant Troyon, circa 1830s.

Sir Arthur Sykes, 7th Baronet Sledmere, by Simon Elwes, 1936.

Baron Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov, by Alexander Varnek, 1814.
(If the date is correct, the portrait would have been completed three years after Stroganov's death.)

Fête de nuit aux Tuileries, le 10 juin 1867, by Pierre Tetar van Elven, 1867

This painting commemorates a fête given on the occasion of the visit of foreign sovereigns to the International Exposition of 1867. Walking in the garden, the Empress Eugénie is on the arm of the Emperor Alexander II of Russia while, behind them, the French Emperor Napoléon III is engaged in conversation with King Wilhelm I of Prussia. Only four years later, France will lie defeated - her emperor in German custody, her empress fled to England - and Wilhelm of Prussia will be proclaimed Emperor of a united Germany in the Galerie des Glaces at Versailles, while the venerable Tuileries Palace will be a burned out shell.

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Pierre Henri Théodore (Petrus Henricus Theodorus) Tetar van Elven (30 August 1828, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean - 5 January 1908, Milan), Dutch painter, watercolorist, and etcher.

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The dramatic staircase connecting the gardens with the salle des Maréchaux - the palace's primary ballroom - was a temporary construction, built for the occasion. I was very happy to see this painting - not at all technically adept, but very evocative, and which I've known in reproduction since childhood - at the recent Tuileries Gardens exhibition at the Portland Art Museum.