They called me the hyacinth girl.

J.W Waterhouse Hylas and the nymphs

Trained silk and lace gown, Paris, 1908.

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La Piscine, 1969

‘The Swing’ is Fragonard’s best-known painting, encapsulating for many the finesse, humour and joie de vivre of the Rococo. No other work better demonstrates his ability to combine erotic licence with a visionary feeling for nature. According to the poet Collé, the history painter Doyen was commissioned by an unnamed ‘gentleman of the Court’ to paint his young mistress on a swing, pushed by a bishop with himself admiring her legs from below. Fragonard proved better suited to paint the work, in which the reference to the church has been omitted, leaving the girl as the main focus, in her pink silk, poised mid-air beyond the reach of both her elderly seated admirer and her young lover.

“Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.”

Franz Kafka

The inscriptions read “Belladona” (a source of atropine, scopolomine and hyoscyamine) and “Papaver” (opium poppy).

(in an alternative universe where cameras exited in 1486) Official portrait of Princess Elizabeth of York before her wedding to King Henry VII

Mother and Child – Exquisitely beautiful vintage photographs of a young Tasha Tudor and her children in the 1940s.