Ladies with interesting things on their heads. 19th century. French. Eugène Devéria, artist. Living from 1805 to 1865, Devéria was a French Romantic history painter who also painted portraits and murals.
Category: Drawings and sketches
Designs for Minton porcelain all with Japanese themes. From Class letter CCC. Folio number 27. Japanese themes; many coloured, Archive ID #SD 1705/MS1705. Collections of the Minton Archive, Stoke-on-Trent, England.
Art with a medieval spin by Norwegian artist Gerhard Munthe (1849-1929). Studying art under several artists in Christiania (now called Oslo), he took part in the Exposition Universelle of 1900 and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. All of these works being in the National Museum in Oslo.
NG.K&H.B.07092, Collections of the Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo. via https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/samlingen/objekt/NG.K_H.B.07092
A better daydream is only one evening dress away. More from the 1930 brochure for the French ocean liner”L’Atlantique.” Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique, publisher. Collection of the Wolfsonian at Florida International University.
Ornaments from a while back. A little something to adorn the sofa cushions should French King Louis XIV and his current mistress appear for dinner. Various creators. From a folio in the collections of the BnF Gallica, the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
More portraits of Native Americans from before a lot of people decided to go out west and it was never the same again. From George Catlin’s work, “O-Kee-Pa; a Religious Ceremony; and other Customs of the Mandans,” an account of an annual religious ceremony practiced by the Mandan tribe. Published in 1867.
Note: there are 13 of these plates, there being one more post to come. These were published towards the end of Catlin’s life, but the images and the text refer back to a visit in July of 1832 when Catlin was joined by, among others, a J. Kipp who was agent for the Missouri Fur Company.
Life under the sea. Lithographs taken color pencil drawings made by Austrian artist Eugen Ransonnet-Villez while submerged in his diving bell. From the artist’s 1867 work “Sketches of the Inhabitants, Animal Life and Vegetation in the Lowlands and High Mountains of Ceylon.” Various archives. These images via publicdomainrevew.org.
Designs for kiosks and pavillons from “Kiosques & pavillons urbains destinés à l’Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs modernes, Paris 1925.” How else to know which one to visit first.
There are more but they are photographs of the various kiosks and pavilions so I didn’t pick them up. But there are around 20 of them at the link, the last two screens.
Garden designs for when His Majesty comes to dinner. Taken from Jean and Pierre Mariette’s 1720 work “L’Architecture a la Mode ou son les Nouveaux Dessins pour la Decoration des Batimens et Jardins.” Collections of the BnF Gallica, the digital version of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
Flower pictures from just a little while ago, at least if you are a flower. French. Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, artist. Living from around 1533 to 1588, he served as official artist on Jean Ribault’s expedition to what became North Florida.
