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Showing posts with label Metropolitan Museum. Show all posts

The Interrupted Sleep, 1750

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View this post on Instagram How to frame a Boucher! "The Interrupted Sleep" 1750, oil on canvas A post shared...

The Dining room from Kirtlington Park

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Dining room from Kirtlington Park, Oxfordshire, 1742–48 Designed by John Sanderson (English, active from 1730, died 1774) Wood, plast...
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How to frame a painting by François Boucher

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A photo posted by Lauren (@mariegossip) on May 29, 2016 at 9:26am PDT Boucher's The Interrupted Sleep caught my eye while...
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18th Century Dog Houses

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The Metropolitan Museum's Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts. Photo: Carlton Hobbs LLC The 18th century saw some luc...
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Compelling Portraits by Anton Raphael Mengs (1728–1779)

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Anton Raphaël Mengs,  Portrait of Isabel Parreño y Arce, Marquesa de Llano.  1771 - 1772, oil on canvas. Rijksmuseum. Buttons, lace, cr...
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Life in Arcadia. Pastoral Simplicity. Earthly Paradise.

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Richard Wilson, Lake Nemi and Genzano from the Terrace of the Capuchin Monastery . Mid-1750s,  oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museu...
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Secrets of an 18th Century Game Table from the Roentgen Workshop

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Room from a hotel in the Cours d'Albret, Bordeaux, Carving attributed to Barthélemy Cabirol (1732–1786) and his workshop. ca. 1785,...
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The Fashionable Male Amazing 18th-Century Frocks

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The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has an incredible collection of 18th century frocks, and I just had to share the...
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Hidden Gems: Metropolitan Museum Research Library

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Library Bookcase, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II Thomas Chippendale. 1753-54, black ink, gray wash. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ...
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The Fashionable Male: Buttons

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Suit.  Fench,  1765-75.  Silk, metallic, metal, cotton. Metropolitan Museum of Art.   Buttons were worn on garments as early as t...
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Exhibition: Vienna Circa 1780

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"...the splendor of royal dining during the ancien régime " Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered is on vie...
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Lecture: Music and Theatre in Watteau's Paris

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"Antoine Watteau's art would be unthinkable without the culture of the Parisian musical theater from which it sprang." -Cowar...
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Exhibition: Watteau, Music & Theater

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The Metropolitan Museum is currently showing the exhibition: Watteau, Music and Theater . The curators explain the time period, the reign o...
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Exhibition: Imperial Privilege

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Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of du Paquier, 1718-44 opens today at the Metropolitan Museum of Ar t in the Wrightsman Gallery...
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Hidden Gems: Courone d'or

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In the darker hallways of the Metropolitan Museum you might find some surprises.  Once you enter the lovely French rooms found in the Europ...
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Exhibition: Napoleon III and Paris

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Tuileries Palace, Burned, 1871, from Les Ruines de Paris et de ses Environs 1870–1871 If you missed th e Napoleon III and Paris Exhibitio...
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Out of the Salon

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Been called to town on business, hope everyone has a lovely weekend.  Here are some visual updates of my own:   click on any image to see i...
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The Metropolitan Museum and Wrightsman Galleries

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The Wrightsman Galleries are worth your donation to the Met, and oh so much mo re! You do not have to book a trip to Paris to see the ...
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