Randomly XVIII

Oslo, 1930.

Portrait of a Hassidic Talmud Student, by Isidor Kaufmann, circa 1890-1910.

Ziegfeld star Dorothy Flood, photograph by Alfred Cheney Johnston, 1931.

The Drowning, by N. C. Wyeth, 1936.

The Alzanas, high-wire act, 1949.

Christian, Prince-Elect of Denmark, eldest son of King Christian IV, by Pieter Isaacsz, 1615.

 Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, Electress of Bavaria, by Jean Delamonce, circa 1674.

Still Life, by Fernand Renard, ND.

Norwegian writer and poet Jarl André Bjerke while a student, circa 1940.

Jane XXX, by Sir Gerald Kelly, 1930.

Infanta Maríana Víctoría of Spain, later Queen of Portugal and the Algarves , by Alexis Simon Belle, 1725.

Germanischer Krieger mit Helm, by Osmar Schindler, 1902.

Lady with a Parrot, by Károly Sterio, 1860.

Le Baiser, by Gustave Leonard De Jonghe, circa 1870s.

Portrait of a Man, French School, circa 1790.

Buenos Aires, 1943.

Anne Wortley, later Lady Morton, unknown artist, circa 1620s.

 Prince Youcca Troubetzkoy costumed for the film "Madam Satan", 1930.

La sultana, by Pietro Luchini, 1860.

Doll house, 1930. Courtesy Matthew Dennison.

The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring, by Vincent van Gogh, 1884.

Fishing from a Punt, by Peder Mønsted, 1910.

Maria Luisa di Borbone-Parma, later Queen of Spain, by Laurent Pécheux, circa 1765-70. 

James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle, studio or circle of William Larkin, circa 1618-19.

From the "A Spring Hat and the City of Bath" series, by Norman Parkinson, British Vogue, 1948.

Count Kirill Razumovsky, by Pompeo Batoni (studio of?), 1766.

 Lizzie B. Dewey (Mrs. Francis Henshaw Dewey II), by John Singer Sargent, 1890.

"Lud in evening dress by Jean Patou, jewels by Mauboussin", by Horst P. Horst, 1938.

Arion Riding a Dolphin, by Germán Hernández Amores, mid-nineteenth century.

A Life Saver, pin-up miniature blotter, by Earl Moran, circa 1940s.

Portrait of a Lady, by Miguel de Herrera, 1782.

Hercules and Lichas, by Pavel Sorokin, 1849.

 Repetition, by Raphael Delorme, 1930.

Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, by Nickolas Muray, 1920.

Pygmalion and Galatea, by Laurent Pécheux, 1784.

Snow at the Hakone Gongen Shrine, by Kawase Hasui, circa first half of the twentieth century. 

Heels, by Charles Guyette, circa 1940.

 Oarsman, by J. C. Leyendecker, 1916.

Portrait of a Woman Holding Gloves, by Paolo Veronese, circa 1560.

Les Halles, Paris, by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1930.

Nude figure, by Luis de Madrazo y Kuntz, circa mid-nineteenth century.

Academic study, Italian School, circa first half of the nineteenth century.

Unknown gentleman, by Jan van Ravesteyn, 1634.

Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, Queen of Prussia, possibly by or after Joseph Stieler, circa mid-nineteenth century.

Courtesy Stephen Rutledge.

 Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene, by Francesco Cairo, circa 1635.

A Young Archer, French School, circa 1820.

 Saint Sebastian, by Ferdinand Murmann, 1630.

 "To my dear little sisters Firmine and Madeleine, your brother Joseph, 10 March 1898." Courtesy Ralf De Jonge.

The Death of Alcibiades, by Philippe Chéry, 1791.

 Parisian mistletoe merchants, 1928. Courtesy David Ciminello.

The Love of Angels at the Time of the Flood, by Édouard Cibot, 1834.

Cupid and Psyche, by Annie Swynnerton, 1891.

Courtesy Ralf De Jonge.

 Ludwika z Zyberków Borchówa, wife of Jan, Crown Chancellor, unknown Polish painter, circa late 1770s.

Portrait of a young man, by Jan van Ravesteyn, circa 1620s.

David with the Head of Goliath, by Orazio Riminaldi, circa first quarter of the seventeenth century.

Study, French School, late eighteenth century.

Portrait of a Young Man, by Joseph Abel, circa 1814.

Swedish water polo player Hans Hellbrand, circa 1950.

Perseus, attributed to Pietro Benvenuti, circa late eighteenth century.

 Municipal Life Guard, Los Angeles, 1926.

One Lemon Quartered, by Eliot Hodgkin, 1972.

Miriam Clements as the Lady Olivia in Twelfth Night, by Charles Buchel, circa 1900-10.

 Self-portrait, by Marie Høeg, circa 1900.

Louis Ghémar l'ainé, by Carolus-Duran, 1871.

 Garden in Baden Germany, autochrome by Wilhelm Tobien, 1928.

Evening gown by L.P. Hollander & Co., New York, circa 1916-17

Cream-colored silk satin and orange silk taffeta evening gown. Satin bodice draped with silver-embroidered net, and trimmed with pearls, beads, ribbon, and a feather. Draped taffeta overskirt, the center-front and center-back panels embroidered with beads and pearls. Underskirt of silver-embroidered net, lined with silk satin. Collection of the Goldstein Museum of Design/College of Design, St. Paul, Minnesota.

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L.P. Hollander was founded 1848 by Maria Theresa Baldwin (1820-1885), wife of Jacob L. Hollander. (The "L.P." most likely refers to her eldest son, Louis.) Baldwin started as a dressmaker in Boston after her husband's business had failed in New York. Beginning with children's clothes, she soon branched out into ladies' wear. She sent her sons to Europe, particularly to Paris and London, in order to acquire the latest fashions and fine dressmaking materials. An early vocal opponent of slavery, she eventually gave over the running of the business to her sons, thereafter devoting her energies to charities and the suffrage movement. By the time of her death the company had long been a very well-known and respected luxury dressmaker and import house. The business was inherited by her son Theodore and several branches were soon opened: Fifth Avenue in New York City - 1890; Newport - 1892; Palm Beach - 1907; and later, among other locations, Pasadena, Bar Harbor, and Hyannis. The New York branch was sold in 1929 and, that same year, the new owner embarked on the construction of the L.P. Hollander Building at 552 Fifth Avenue at 46th Street in Manhattan; now an Art Deco landmark, it was finished the following year. With the Depression in full force, in February of 1932 the L.P. Hollander company went into voluntary bankruptcy, though they would continue to do business for several more years.