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went to see some art today and today’s theme was dogs. Here’s my favorite. thanks Claude-Joseph Vernet you did great that is man’s best friend!

Joseph Vernet (French, 1714–1789) The City and Bay of Toulon, 1755

Portrait of Admiral Augustus Keppel by Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)

Italian vintage postcard

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres:   Portrait of Charles-Joseph-Laurent Cordier, (1811)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Veduta della Piazza del Popolo (Roma)

Piazza del Popolo

Giovanni Paolo Panini - Roma, Piazza del Popolo

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755-1842) • Self Portrait in a Straw Hat • 1782 • National Gallery, London

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/299809

Portrait of a 15 year old Francis I, alongside one of his youngest daughter, Marie Antoinette, when she was 16, with both dressed in red hunting attire.

Anton Raphael Mengs (German, 1728–1779) Parnassus, after 1761 Hermitage Museum This painting represents a sketch or a replica, produced by the author himself, of the central part of the ceiling in the main hall of the Villa Albani in Rome. The plafond created by Mengs in the fresco technique, in 1761, was commissioned by Cardinal Alessandro Albani. In this painting Mengs broke away from Baroque tradition and turned to the conventions of Neoclassical art. The general composition is inspired by Raphael’s fresco ‘Parnas’ in Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican Palace in Rome. In the centre is Apollo Mousagetes, the Sun God, patron of the arts and the leader of the Muses, with his attributes of a lyre, a crown on the head and a laurel wreath in his hand. Seated to his right is Mnemosyne, the mother of the Muses and the goddess of memory, as well as Clio, the Muse of history, Thalia, the Muse of comedy, and the dancing Erato and Terpsichore. To his left is Calliope, Polyhymnia, Euterpe, Melpomene and Urania. The painter depicts the Muses with their attributes. Clio’s features bear a close resemblance to those of Mengs’s wife Margarita, while Mnemosyne has a likeness to Vittorucchia, the daughter of Countess Ceroffini.

Emma Hart, Lady Hamilton (c 1765–1815), as Circe at Waddesdon Manor. This is the first portrait in which Romney painted Emma in this guise, painted in July to August 1782.

The discovery of the statue of Antinous, Delphi, Greece,1894

Maria Luisa of Parma, 1765, by Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779)

Portrait of Louis, Grand Dauphin of France, Louis Tocqué, 1739