
Part II. “Marie Antoinette Style” exhibition promises a feast for the eyes with… 🎀🧁🍰 *18th-19th century dresses and evening gowns; *jewellery (including Marie...

Part II. “Marie Antoinette Style” exhibition promises a feast for the eyes with… 🎀🧁🍰 *18th-19th century dresses and evening gowns; *jewellery (including Marie...

Part I. Marie Antoinette was a fashion icon famous for her lavish and extravagant style, which included towering wigs, gorgeous gowns, and elaborate accessories, all...
“Always think of me; I embrace you with my whole heart, as well as those poor and dear children: O my God! how heart-rending it is to leave them for ever! Adieu! Adieu!”...

This painting is a portrait of the Dauphine Marie-Antoinette, consort of the future king of France, Louis XVI, as Hebe, goddess of youth, executed by the painter...
⚜️Versailles: Science and Splendour⚜️ exhibition shows over one hundred works – paintings, objets d’art, magnificent scientific objects and instruments of the 17th–18th...
Peace Bringing Back Prosperity by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1780, Musée du Louvre. @museelouvre @louvrelens @andre_bejar

Anne Vallayer-Coster died in Paris in 1818, age 73, and following the death of her husband six years later, their substantial collection was sold at auction on 21-22...

This wonderful still-life painting belonged to a high-ranking official of the entourage of the Queen of France, Marie Antoinette. It was exhibited at the Salon of 1777,...

Alexander Roslin’s (1718—1793) style combined Classicist tendencies with the lustrous, shimmering colours of Rococo, an elegant and ornate style of the 18th century....

Madame Sophie (1734–1782) was the 6th of eight daughters of Louis XV of France. Timid and self-effacing, she lived among members of the royal family at the Châteaux of...
18th century art & fashion at the Buckingham Palace, The Queen’s Gallery. Fascinating exhibition “Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians” brings together over 200 works...

In 1756 Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (1715—1783), one of France's most significant pastel portraitists, visited Bordeaux to paint members of the Journu family of shipping...

It became very fashionable in the Paris of the late 1750s and the 1770s to have one's portrait painted by François-Hubert Drouais. He portrayed most of the leading...

This is a 18th century portrait of Marie Rinteau, the great-grandmother of the writer and novelist George Sand (1804–1876). Sand is recognised as one of the most notable...

The greatest boost to Jean-Baptiste Oudry's (1686—1755) official career was provided by his patron, Henri Camille, the chevalier de Beringhen, who introduced the painter...

It became very fashionable in the Paris of the late 1750s and the 1760s to have one's portrait painted by the most prominent artist of his time François-Hubert Drouais...
La vie en rose 🥀

Brazilian artist transforms images of historical figures into contemporary portraits using imagines how the generals, artists and characters of myths would look in...

⚜️La Bell' yo⚜️ от Анастасии Переверзевой @pereverzeva_anastasiia и Лилианы Киселевой @lilimillerdolls . Идея коллекции родилась больше года назад. За основу мы решили...
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