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Dion Boucicault as a French Knight of the 18th Century, from the set Actors and Actresses, First Series (N70) for Duke brand cigarettes. 1888–89. Credit line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/422928

Eduard Hau, Interiors of the Winter Palace: The Bathroom of Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna, 1870, watercolor.

If you’ll pardon the pun, I have a trunk of vintage elephant imagery.

Not exactly in Kansas: my collection of vintage Wizard of Oz imagery.

Not exactly in Kansas: my collection of vintage Wizard of Oz imagery.

Mendès was a well-known writer and publisher of Symbolist poetry; his companion, Augusta Holmès, a virtuoso pianist and composer, was the mother of these girls. Renoir sent the portrait to a group exhibition in 1888 that was a critical disaster; the painting was ignored again at the 1890 Salon. It has since emerged, however, as one of Renoir's most impressive works, realized in his new, aggressive coloristic style. In the fluid brushwork and treatment of theme, the portrait pays homage to Fragonard and other eighteenth-century genre painters.

Stained glass window spandrel, Sainsbury's, High Road, Brondesbury, 1969. From the Sainsbury Archive.

Étui. ca. 1765–70. Credit line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1890 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/187229

Hippolyte Flandrin, 1850 Scala Regia

Edgar Degas

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, c. 1686 Oil on Canvas  

Brassaï, Chat se regardant dans un miroir, 1938, Paris.

Wilton Graff, Montgomery Clift, and Jessie Royce Landis in the play "Dame Nature" (1938)