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Details in Purple

The New Bracelet, 19th century, by Frans Verhas.

Countess Alexander Nikolaevitch Lamsdorff, 1859, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.

Summer Idleness: Day Dreams, 1909, by John William Godward.

Lady in Violet, 1874, by Pál Szinyei Merse.

Portrait of a Lady, c. 1570, by Alessandro Allori.

A Lady in a Lilac Dress, 19th century, by Władysław Czachórski.

That Was a Piedmontese, 1862, by Arthur Hughes.

“What they have now they can never have back again. But for her the pain of loneliness will be nothing to the pain that she used to feel, of being unworthy. He brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her. Meanwhile his life opens out before him in all directions at once. They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another. You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that.” — Sally Rooney

Confidenze, 1868. 

Cristiano Banti (Italian, 1824–1904)