Dreaming the day away hoping for better decor ideas and the parlor in need of something. 1870s watercolors of the homes of the creatively famous including Sarah Bernhardt’s. Marie-Désirée Bourgoin, artist (1839–1912). 

Aspirational decor from folios and magazines., Drawings and sketches 1 Minute
Studio of Sarah Bernhardt. 1879. French. Watercolor and gouache over graphite. Marie-Désirée Bourgoin, artist (1839–1912). Signed Bourgoin. 79 in brush and black ink at the upper left. Inscribed Sarah Bernhardt in yellow gouache, on the portrait painting depicted on an easel at center of composition. Image © 2000–2024 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/343351
Le peintre Alphonse de Neuville dans son atelier. 1875-1885. French. Watercolor. Marie-Désirée Bourgoin, watercolorist (1839–1912). Collections of the Musée d’Orsay. Artwork in the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marie-D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9_Bourgoin_-_Alphonse_de_Neuville_dans_son_atelier.jpg
Intérieur de la galerie Louis XII du Baron A. de Rothschild. By 1912. French. Watercolor and gouache. Marie-Désirée Bourgoin, watercolorist (1839–1912). Image ©2024 Artnet Worldwide Corporation. Artwork itself in the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years https://www.artnet.com/artists/marie-d%C3%A9sir%C3%A9e-bourgoin/int%C3%A9rieur-de-la-galerie-louis-xii-du-baron-ade-nn2ShtRUTKKMK8jo_UHbGw2

Part of the 19th century artistic fashion trend that involved hiring watercolorists to paint portraits of the rooms in your home. There are other posts in this blog with examples showing spaces in Romanov and other aristocratic Russian interiors along with others of Windsor Castle and Prince Albert’s childhood home that were commissioned by Queen Victoria. And some earlier ones of the Prince Regent’s Brighton Pavilion with its fun palm tree frond tops on the columns in the kitchen.

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