The Long Victorian
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My pick of art, 1789-1914 era. Working on a YT project, nothing to see yet.
Yorkshire, UK
Joined April 2010
Sappho (1877) by Charles Mengin (French artist, lived 1853–1933). Ancient Greek poet, born around 600 BC. According to a sad legend she threw herself off a cliff and into the sea from unrequited love.
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Selene (1880) by Albert Aublet (French artist, lived 1851–1938). The work was accompanied by a poem written by a friend. 'The blonde Séléné is awaking into the azure - Like a rounded arch, she is floating and rising - Slowly stretching her beautiful rejuvenated body ...'
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Salomé (1909) by Paul Antoine de la Boulaye (French artist, lived 1849–1926). A princess, later queen of Armenia Minor. She of 'Dance of the Seven Veils' and “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”
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A lady reading in the garden (1894) by Niels Frederik Schiottz-Jensen (Danish artist, lived 1855-1941). '[Reading] is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.' - Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet.
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The Garden of Eden, Kensington Gardens (1901) by Hugh Goldwin Riviere (English artist, lived 1869–1956). One of London's eight Royal Parks. Eden for those in Love, even in inclement weather.
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Death on the Pale Horse (1865) by Gustave Doré (French artist, lived 1832–1883). Print from illustrated edition of the Bible. Death rides into the world on a pale horse. He is the fourth knight of the apocalypse. Hell follows him.
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Marchesa Luisa Casati, with a greyhound (1908) by Giovanni Boldini (Italian artist, lived 1842–1931). Back in 1995 this could have been yours for a mere £1.2 million.
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Snow Scene at Argenteuil (1875) by Claude Monet (French artist, lived 1840–1926). Winter in the suburbs of Paris.
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Peonies (1870) by Charles Edward Perugini (Italian artist, lived 1839–1918). In 1874 the artist married Kate Dickens, youngest daughter of writer, Charles.
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RT @longvictorian2: Winter Landscape (1811) by Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774–1840). A man has cast aside his crutches and lies again…
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The Green Coat (1926) by Sir John Lavery (Irish artist, lived 1856-1941). “I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.”
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Lucifer (1890) by Franz von Stuck (German artist, lived 1863–1928). “Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost.
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RT @longvictorian2: Portrait of Lady Agnew of Lochnaw (1892) by John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925). A lovely painting, with that fam…
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Pierrot's Embrace (1900) by Guillaume Seignac (French artist, lived 1870–1924). 'Society is a masked ball, where everyone hides [their] real character' - Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Blind Man's Bluff by Antonio Ermolao Paoletti (Italian artist, lived 1834–1912). Played 2,000 years ago in Greece - and after. Do people still play it?
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Reflections on the Thames (1880) by John Atkinson Grimshaw (English artist, lived 1836–1893). Victorian London, Big Ben and Westminster on the right.
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