The Love Letter - François Boucher
1750
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Posts tagged art.
Scene from the Apocalypse, ca. 1829, by Francis Danby
Coalbrookdale at Night, 1801, by Philipp Jakob Loutherbourg
Paul Delaroche (1797-1856)
The Children of King Edward Imprisoned in the Tower
Oil on canvas
1830
(via my-ear-trumpet)
Hardest part about returning to America? Not enough 18th century British Art. Fuck that shit.
The Bolt - Jean-Honoré Fragonard
c. 1777
One of my all-time favorites. So fucking into Fragonard these days.
From a blue and white China bottle. This composition is a fine example of conventional representation of natural flowers; but for the peculiar character of the termination of some of the leaves, it would pass for Indian or Persian.
From Examples of Chinese ornament, by Owen Jones, London, 1867.
(Source archive.org.)
Confession: I have cried in museums twice. The first was in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern. No one can fault that. The second was at the Victoria & Albert Museum after stumbling upon Owen Jones’ drawings.
What. I like art.
Miss Susanna Gale
by Joshua Reynolds
I’ve done a lot of hating on Sir Reynolds as a portraitist (never as an aesthetic theorist) in my time, but this one’s pretty damn stunning.
