Hunting stop, painted for the dining room of the Petit apartments of Louis XV, King of France (1715-1774), in Fontainebleau (Ile-de-France) 1737.
Rococo hunting party by Charles André van Loo 1737.
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Chevalier Charles d’Éon de Beaumont.
Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d’Éon de Beaumont. Chevalier d’Eon 1792. Painting by Thomas Stewart after Jean-Laurent Mosnier.
Chevalier Charles d’Éon.
Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d’Éon de Beaumont, known as “chevalier d’Éon” (1728- 1810) was a diplomat, spy, officer and man of letters from France.
He remained famous for his pronounced taste for transvestis, because he lived large parts of his life as a woman and had a lifelong reputation as an excellent fencer.
THE VAMPIRE AND ST MICHAEL
THEY CAME TO THE PLACE WHERE HE HAD LEFT HER.
THE VAMPIRE AND ST MICHAEL.
COSSACK FAIRY TALES.
Sadko by Natalia Goncharova. Opera costume, 1916.
Sadko Opera costume by Natalia Goncharova
Opera costume for Sadko by Natalia Goncharova.
Russian folk tale.
ICONS. THE VLADIMIR MADONNA.
THE SOUL OF RUSSIA. RUSSIAN ART, BY NICOLAS ROERICH.
The Ancestors of Man. After a painting by Nicolas Roerich
RUSSIAN ART, BY NICOLAS ROERICH
THE SOUL OF RUSSIA
Harvester at Berkshire County Mass. 1899
Harvester 1899
Harvester at Berkshire County Mass. 1899
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Ali Baba and the forty thieves by Walter Crane.
Kazuma Ogawa. Costumes & customs in Japan.
Sarah Bernhardt. French actress
Bernhardt as Théodora (1900) in the drama of the same name by Victorien Sardou
Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923)
Sarah Bernhardt (actually Marie Henriette Rosine Bernardt) was a French actress. She is considered the most famous actress of her time and was one of the first world stars.
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