The Triple Goddess as 18th century whores (which seems like something that would be entirely possible). And a rat.
I’ve been drawing like a fiend, doing elaborate drawings of half dressed courtesans with cats.
What say you? Completed painted versions?
Grace Elliot (1754?–1823). Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, 1778. (In the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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Evening Jacket
Charles Fredrick Worth, 1890
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An 18th century copy of the miraculous image of Mary venerated in the abbey church of St Matthias in Trier, Germany.
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The Fox Muff (1787). And if you think this is a satire on Charles James Fox, you’d be correct.
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The petit trianon by Johanni on Flickr.
Coat, 1720’s Germany (probably), LACMA
One of the many reasons that I’m grateful for the Gallica website is the ability to see incredible detail on so many of these images that would otherwise be lost or muddled.
For example, on this 1793 French engraving of her execution, we can see clearly three men dipping their handkerchiefs in the blood running down the scaffold, the peaceful yet saddened expression on Marie Antoinette’s head, the almost pathetic way her body lies limp (with untied hands!) and the jubilation of the crowd.
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