Life And The Arts...From A Retrograde Perspective
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| Nature morte, fleurs dans une cruche en céramique, by Aimé Victor Barraud, 1939. |
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| Stilleben, by Thorolf Holmboe, 1907. |
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| Bodegón con piña, by Hermenegildo Bustos, 1877. |
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| Chez Helleu [the artist Paul-César Helleu}, by Walter Gay, 1902. |
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| Rum Row, by Frederic Judd Waugh, 1922. |
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| The Guardian of Paradise, Franz von Stuck, 1889. |
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| Willem Jansz. Cock, Standardbearer of the Orange company of the civic guard of The Hague, by Everard Crijnsz. van der Maes, 1617. |
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| Paris, by H. Armstong Roberts, 1928. |
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| May Night, by Willard Leroy Metcalf, 1906. |
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| Mrs. Warburg, Autochrome by John Cimon Warburg, circa 1910s. |
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| Circa 1910s. (Two images.) |
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| Der Brief vom Liebsten (The Letter from the Dearest), by Georg Friedrich Reichmann, 1830. All the adults looks distraught, while the child is oblivious. |
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| 1931. |
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| Still Life with Pewter Jug, Glass of Ale and Other Objects, by Simon Luttichuys, 1649. |
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| Napoléon, colossal bust by Lorenzo Bartolini, 1805. |
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| Jared French, by Luigi Lucioni, 1930. |
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| Luigi Quadrini, 1928. Inscribed in French, written in Spain, when the Italian boxer was twenty-one. |
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| Russian lady, by Alexander Sokolov, 1884. |
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| Machaquito como apoteosis del toreo Cordobés (Rafael "Machaquito" González Madrid), by Julio Romero de Torres, 1911. |
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| Courtesy Stephen Rutledge. |
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| The Menagerie, by Melchior d'Hondecoeter, circa 1690. |
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| Szeret Engem? (Do You Like Me), by Károly Brocky, circa 1840s. |
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| Courtesy Ralf De Jonge. |
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| Self-Portrait, by Anna Zinkeisen, circa 1944. |
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| Lucius Verus, unknown sculptor, circa A.D. 161-169. |
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| Mercury, Royal Palace, Amsterdam, by Artus Quellinus the Elder, circa 1650-1654. |
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| At the Athens Fine Arts School, by Dimitris Harissiadis, 1957. |
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| Artistic Anatomy Class, California, circa 1900. |
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| Orpheus and Eurydice, by Emil Neide, circa third quarter of the nineteenth century. |
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| Portrait of Absalam, Tangier, by Santiago Arcos Y Ugalde, 1887. |
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| Josef Melander, Sweden, 1917. Edit: Thanks to a follower of this blog, I can now identify the photographer as Gustav Reimers. |
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| Partie de campagne, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, circa 1882. |
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| Lovers in a Café, by Gotthardt Johann Kuehl, 1870. |
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| Hand-tinted lantern slide, by T. Enami, circa 1898-1907. |
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| Portrait of a Young Gentleman, by Jan Mijtens (Johannes Mytens), circa 1640-60. |
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| Lieutenant Colonel Lord Charles Cavendish-Bentinck, by Anthony van Dyck, 1637. |
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| Mug shot, circa 1950s-early 1960s. |
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| Amélie du Bois, by Alexandre-Jean Dubois-Drahonet, 1821. |
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| Fra Frognerkilen (From Frognerkilen), by Thorolf Holmboe, 1924. |
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| Frognerkilen, by Thorolf Holmboe, circa 1920s. |
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| Courtesy Stephen Rutledge. |
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| Satan Summoning his Legions, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1796-97. |
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| Bridge, Toronto Island, 1911. |
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| Rinaldo et Armida, by Antoine Ansiaux, circa first quarter of the nineteenth century. |
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| Mrs. Frampton combing her hair, circa 1885-90. (Two images.) |
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| Sophie Madeleine du Pont, née Dalmas, and her daughter Victorine du Pont, French School, circa 1793-95. |
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| Self-portrait, by Nikolai Milioty, 1912. |
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| Courtesy Stephen Rutledge. |
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| Theatrical costume, circa 1780s. |
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| Portrait of a Viennese Lady, by Henri-Guillaume Schlesinger, 1836. |
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| The Sower, Anto Carte, 1919. |
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| Courtice Pounds as “Richard Dauntless” in the original New York production of Ruddigore, 1887. |
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| Same as above. |
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| Study, French School, 1800. |
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| Portrait of a Young Girl Holding a Monkey, attributed to Alexis-Simon Belle, circa first third of the eighteenth century. |
