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kecobe · 4 months

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Mrs. George Swinton (Elizabeth Ebsworth) John Singer Sargent (American; 1856–1925) London, 1897 Oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

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pagansphinx · 2 months

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Cecillia Beaux (American, 1855-1942) • Portrait of Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge • 1916

Celebrating Women's History Month with daily selections of art, poetry, and literature by pioneering women in the arts and letters.

#art #painting #fine art #art history #cecilia beaux #woman artist #female artist #oil painting #20th century american art #early 20th century american art #painter #portrait #society portraits #american artist #portraitist #pagan sphinx art blog #art lovers on tumblr #art blogs on tumblr

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larobeblanche · 6 months

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John Singer Sargent (American, worked in UK and Europe, 1856-1925) In a Garden, Corfu • 1909

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Photo credit: ©Pagan Sphinx Photography

Photo by me taken at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's current exhibition, Fashioned by Sargent. A collection of gorgeous Sargent portraits and displays of attire worn by the subjects of those portraits, while also illuminating the ways in which fashion played a key role in his artistic process. Follow the link for the complete introductory exhibition text.

The label for this work:

Sargent's friend and fellow painter Jane de Glehn reads in the garden of the Villa Soteriotisa in Corfu, where she, her husband Wilfred, and other close friends were spending several weeks with Sargent and his sister Emily. The two other women beside her (look carefully in the corners) are both Eliza Wedgwood, giving us the hint that this entire composition is Sargent's invention. The stiff blue-white skirt that Jane wears was Sargent's-a studio prop. It was made of taffeta, described by Eliza as the color of a robin's egg, and completely out of fashion in 1909, when skirts were becoming slimmer and were usually made of softer fabrics. But Sargent preferred this full, stiff taffeta skirt which he could manipulate to create the deep valleys and folds of cloth he loved to paint.

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lionfloss · 1 year

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by The.Rohit

#jsngkadfhgadkjfg #i literally was just searching flickr #and one of the accounts had a million bunny Guinea pig and cat portraits FOR A SHELTER #anyways #bunny #bunnies #rabbit #rabbits #animals #cute #pets #buddies #humane society #ottawa humane society

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deviika · 2 years

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— Kathy Acker

#Kathy Acker #Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels #life quotes #abt society #book quotes #dark academia #chaotic academia #light academia #relatable #quotes

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resplendentoutfit · 2 months

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John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925) • Portrait of Louise Pomeroy Inches • 1887 • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Evening Dress • Unidentified Maker • American • Silk velvet with silk plain weave lining

How wonderful that such a well-preserved dress exists to enliven a famous portrait painting! This dress is one of my favorites for a couple of reasons – firstly, I love velvet and this silk velvet is the real deal – gorgeous. Secondly, I've seen the portrait many times at the MFA in Boston. The dress was in a glass case at the blockbuster Fashioned by Sargent exhibition also at the MFA.

I've read that Louise Inches was expecting her third child when she sat for this portrait and that the dress had been designed to accommodate extra panels as her figure expanded. She and Sargent got on well. Both were music lovers and accomplished musicians.

#portrait #art #painting #art history #john singer sargent #female portrait #society portrait #american expat artist #artist #portraitist #museum of fine arts boston #paintings i've seen #historic dresses #fashion history #late 19th century art #fine art #the resplendent outfit #1880s fashion history

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ovidiana · 3 months

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He and his best friend spotted you across the senate and they would like to know if your house is for sale

#tagamemnon #cicero #marcus tullius cicero #sorry. i was in the mood for portraits #dead romans society

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lionofchaeronea · 3 months

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Crucita - Old Hopi Dress, Joseph Henry Sharp, ca. 1920

#art #art history #Joseph Henry Sharp #portrait #portrait painting #Native Americans in art #Hopi #Hopi tribe #New Mexico #Taos Society of Artists #American art #20th century art #oil on canvas #Buffalo Bill Center of the West

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thesilicontribesman · 2 months

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Faces From The Distant Past...

Painted Roman Burial Panels and a Shroud

The bearded men are painted in encaustic on limewood. Damage to the finer, later portrait reveals traces of the artist's sketch below the right eye and in the beard. Unprovenanced, Roman, 150-170 CE

Fragment of a painted shroud of a young woman with gold ball earrings, a gold necklace and a hair-band decorated with pearls. Hawara,. Fayum,. Roman, 55-80 CE.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

#roman #roman empire #roman living #roman people #roman society #roman burial #roman belief #archaeology #portrait #faces #roman craft #roman art #ancient cultures #ancient craft #Ashmolean Museum #Oxford

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alicenpai · 1 year

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