paintings-details:

Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun, La Baronne de Crussol

1785

(Source: detailsofpaintings, via lemaldusiecle)

a-l-ancien-regime:

Henry Robert Morland (1716‑1797)

A Laundry Maid Ironing

c.1765-82

Oil paint on canvas

Tate

(via womenandbooks)

Kitagawa Utamaro, Courtesans Strolling Beneath Cherry Trees Before the Daikokuya Teahouse, ca.1789 on Flickr.

Image by © Brooklyn Museum/Corbis

Momokawa Choki, Double Half-Length Portrait of Moto, a Maidservant of the Yoshidaya and the Geisha Mizue, ca.1780-1808 on Flickr.

Image by © Christie’s Images/CORBIS

Torii Kiyonaga, Three Geisha in Rain, ca.1783 on Flickr.

Image by © Sakamoto Photo Research Laboratory/CORBIS

Giorgio Bonelli, Papavero Negro Poppy, 1772-93

Via Still Life, Quick Heart

jaded-mandarin:

Queen Marie Antoinette of France and two of her Children walking in the Park of Trianon - Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller, 1785. Detail.

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thekimonogallery:

Two women at a party. Ukiyo-e woodblock print, 1780-1800 ,  Japan, by artist Chokosai Eisho.

jokersin:

Dovedale by Moonlight ( 1785)

- Joseph Wright

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a-l-ancien-regime:

Condesa de Altamira and Her Daughter, María Agustina, detail

Goya (1746–1828 )

 1787–88

Goya’s brilliant treatment of the countess’ gown, with its shimmering embroidered silk, attests to his mastery of technique (more…)

© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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