Madame de Courcelles by Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu with her son, Edward Wortley Montagu and Attendent - Attributed to Jean Baptiste Vanmour, c.1717
Finally reading Edward Said’s Orientalism. Relevant portrayal of the East is relevant.
(via 18thcenturylove)
Detail of a lovely sleeve
Christoph Johann Friedrich Medem by Anton Graff, 1796
Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg by Pompeo Batoni, 1753-56
Rachel Leeds Kerr, 1790
Charles Wilson Peale
Portrait d’une jeune abbesse
Mary Thomas, the Artist’s Second Wife by Johann Zoffany
Catherine II of Russia by Ivan Argunov, 1762
Queen Friederike Luise of Prussia
Everything about this painting delights me, from the colors to the design of the dress to the look on her face. Just a little inspiration from the Duchess of Devonshire’s Gossip Guide to the 18th Century — one of my favorite blogs.
Marie Leszczynska, Reine de France by Charles Van Loo
