Tiny Jacobin

Rotting in hell

snailstags

‘Hours of Joanna the Mad’, Bruges 1486-1506

El Greco

Portrait of the Artist’s Son, Jorge Manuel; c. 1600-1605

Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, Spain (CE0097P)

These rare color photos of Paris were taken over 100 years ago. 

In 1909, a wealthy French banker named Albert Kahn wanted to document the world using a new color photo process called Autochrome Lumière, so he commissioned 4 photographers to take their cameras all over the world.

One of the cities they documented was Paris.

Starting in 1914, Kahn’s photographers, Leon Gimpel, Stephane Passet, Georges Chevalier and Auguste Leon, documented life in Paris using color filters made from dyed potato starch grains.

They made these color photos over a century ago (with a small amount of color enhancing done on the original shots).

In addition to the many shots of Paris, around 72,000 Autochromes from around the globe were created through Kahn’s project.

  Albrecht Durer c. 1517

Yatagans from the Wallace Collection

Short sword with scabbard, Turkey, 1806 / Steel, ivory, gold, silver, wood, velvet and chased, 57.1 cm blade

Short sword with scabbard, early 19th century / Steel, silver, gold, walrus ivory and wood, embossed and chased, 58.4 cm blade

Short sword with scabbard, Southeastern Europe, 1825-1830 / Steel, gold, silver, coral, walrus ivory, glass and wood, embossed and chased, 60.3 cm blade

Short sword with scabbard, Istanbul, Turkey, 1820 / Steel, silver, gold, walrus ivory, embossed and chased, 60.9 cm blade

Short sword with scabbard, 1806 / Steel, velvet, silver, cornelian and gold, embossed and chased, 56.5 cm blade

Short sword with scabbard, Turkey, early 19th century / Iron or steel, gold, silver, ivory and wood, embossed and chased, 48.2 cm blade

Short sword with scabbard,  late 17th century (blade), late 18th century  (mounts and scabbard) / Steel, gold, silver, wood and leather, chiselled and embossed, 54.6 cm blade

Short sword with scabbard, Albania, 1797 / Iron or steel, silver, metal, gold and wood, embossed and chased, 66 cm blade

Short sword with scabbard, Albania, late 18th century / Iron or steel, silver, gold, walrus ivory and wood, chased, engraved and embossed, 53.3 cm blade

dragon litany

book of hours, Flanders c. 1300-1310

mourner

Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, France ca. 1230