la haute noblesse

Fitz Henry Lane Owl’s Head, Penobscot Bay, Maine (1862)

Guercino - The Persian Sibyl.

Childe Hassam - The Concord Meadow

Charles Cromwell Ingham - The Flower Girl

Water Lilies (detail), Claude Monet.

Classical Landscape with Figures (detail), Jean Victor Bertin  (French, Paris 1767–1842 Paris).

Beach of Trouville, (detail), by Eugène Boudin.

François Boucher - Les Sabots (detail).

La Ferté (detail), about 1825, by Richard Parkes Bonington.

Study of the Sky, Eugène Boudin 

John Singer Sargent - Mrs Carl Meyer and her Children, detail.

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Baronne James de Rothschild (detail).

Eugene von Guérard - Sydney Heads

Mrs. Joshua Montgomery Sears (detail), by John Singer Sargent.

Mercedes Mendeville, condesa de San Félix by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

George Beare - Portrait of an Elderly Lady and a Girl.