People getting out and around in a Europe that’s no longer quite the same. Spanish. Marià (Mariano) Fortuny, artist. Living from 1838 to 1874 he also loved painting the Levant.

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"The Painter's Children In The Japanese Room." 1874.
“The Painter’s Children In The Japanese Room.” 1874. Oil on canvas. Image © 2019. Museo Nacional del Prado. Fair use license. via https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-painters-children-in-the-japanese-room/d3dce4e3-08bb-4bff-bbdc-6a3c445cce46
"Choice of a Model." 1874.
“Choice of a Model.” 1874. Oil on panel. Collection of the Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 70 years. via https://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=327996
"Before the Bullfight." ca. 1871.
“Before the Bullfight.” ca. 1871. Oil on panel. Collection of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 70 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antes_de_la_corrida_-_Mariano_Fortuny.jpg

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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