'The Wild Swans,' illustration by Elenore Plaisted Abbott, 1922

'Lady in Red, White, and Blue,' by Madeleine Lemaire (1845 - 1928)

Keeping calm with Jan van de Cappelle: shipping in a calm with a States General yacht firing a salute, 1649.

'Fire Opal (Grace Mutell),' by Laura Coombs Hills, 1899. This watercolor on ivory is just 6 x 4.75 inches.

'Shimohonda-machi, Kanazawa,' by Kawase Hasui, 1921

The Curve #Photography #Streetphotography #TheNetherlands #ClassicMono #BlackandWhite #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYearPast

'La Souris,' by George Barbier, 1925

'Dingleton Farm,' by Maxfield Parrish, 1956

'Girl with a parrot,' by Rosalba Carriera, 1730

'Wide Neteview with Beguinevest,' by Raymond de la Haye, 1913

'Fairy Tales,' by Jessie Willcox Smith, 1903

Departing for the Promenade (Will you go out with me, Fido?) by Alfred Stevens (1823–1906).

'The Dreamer,' by Louis Marie De Schryver (French, 1862-1942)

'In The Fullness Of Summer,' by Delapoer Downing (1853–1926)

Dressing for a Masquerade - Fabio Cipolla (1852–1935) #genre_painting

"The bloom is not a bloom, the mist not mist, At midnight she comes, and goes again at dawn. She comes like a spring dream - how long will she stay? She goes like morning cloud, without a trace." ― Bai Juyi (白居易) (princess of China, Georges Barbier)

'Penelope,' by Gari Melchers, 1910

'Cymon and Iphigenia, by Lord Frederic Leighton, 1884

'Sunny Terrace,' by Firmin Baes, 1900

'St Catherine of Sienna negotiating between Pope Gregory XI & the Florentines,' by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, 1919

'The Garden of the Hesperides,' by Frederic Leighton, 1892

'The Sleeping Beauty,' by John Collier, 1921

Alphonse Mucha - Primrose and Feather

'Amalfi dai Cappucini,' by Carl Frederik Aargaard (1833-1895)

Poster for the opera 'Madama Butterfly,' by Italian illustrator Leopoldo Metlicovitz, 1904.

Paul Dubois Joan of Arc, 1873.

'Portrait of Saskia van Uylenburgh,' by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1633-1634

'Spring Rain,' by Erté, 1984

New Year's greeting by Xavier Sager, 1917

Illustration from Sagen van Koning Arthur en de Ridders van de Tafelronde by Nelly Mountjin-De Fouw, Zutphen, undated.

'Girl with a Red Hat,' by Johannes Vermeer, 1665 - 1666

Carl Larsson, The Lazy Corner, oil on canvas, 1894

Marisa Berenson in Stanley Kubrick's 'Barry Lyndon,' 1975

Major fashion statement of 1630: the cartwheel ruff, here worn by an unknown woman and painted by Nicolaes Pickenoy, born OTD 1588.

'Psyche opening the gold box,' by John William Waterhouse, 1903

'Girl's Head with Laurel Twig,' by Alphonse Mucha, circa 1900-1903.

'First Roses,' by Wladislaw Czachorski, 1891

'Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's Study at Townshend House,' painted in watercolor by his daughter Anna in 1884--when she was just 17!

'A Star,' by Léon François Comerre, 1872

'Loge de Théâtre,' by Erté, c 1912

Marianne H W Robilliard - Draped Female

Sabra Field (born 1935) Snow in Snow on Snow

"And we shall have snow, And what will poor Robin do then, poor thing? He'll sit in a barn and keep himself warm, And hide his head under his wing, poor thing!" Illustration by Walter Crane

(simpleisbeautifulphotography) Photography by Willy Ronis The Lovers of the Bastille, 1957

'Reading on a Sunny Afternoon,' by Charles Edward Perugini (1839-1918)

Charles Dana Gibson - The Weaker Sex

Actress Lily Brayton in 1896

'A Bar at the Folies-Bergère,' by Édouard Manet, 1882

The Quay at Bougival https://www.wikiart.org/en/berthe-morisot/the-quay-at-bougival

'The Gallery of HMS Calcutta (Portsmouth),' by James Tissot, 1876