Centuries Past

French vintage postcard

“Passed the Window” from the children’s book Mummy’s Bedtime Story Book, illustrated by Jessie Marion King, 1929.

Cruet stand with bottles. 1701–22. Credit line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/187732

Patience on and elephant

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mudwerks:Beautiful Century: Leon Bakst, Ida Rubinstein as Cleopatre, 1909

A breast cup – supposedly modeled after Helen of Troy – I forget what museum I took this in – Baltimore or DC anyway…

Cadavere di donna

Nymphea, c.1890 by Arthur Wardle (English, 1864–1949)

The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man (also known as The Earthly Paradise with the Fall of Adam and Eve), (Detail), (c. 1615), by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577 – 1640) and Jan Brueghel the Elder (Dutch, 1568 –1625), oil on panel, 74.3 cm (29.2 in) x 114.7 cm (45.1 in), Mauritshuis, The Hague

Walkers on an Avenue (Hubert Robert, 1733 - 1808)

Take the Fair Face of Woman, and Gently Suspending, With Butterflies, Flowers, and Jewels Attending, Thus Your Fairy is Made of Most Beautiful Things (1869) by Sophie Gengembre Anderson (French-born British, 1823 – 1903), oil on canvas, Private Collection

The Awakening, (Detail), (1893), by Eugene de Blaas (Italian-Austrian, 1843 – 1931), oil on canvas, 175 cm (68.8 in) x 100 cm (39.3 in), Private Collection

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A Virgin's Sacrifice (1922)