Vogue cover, lithograph by Helen Dryden, 1921

Dame Gladys Constance Cooper (actress), born on this day in 1888

Le Bateau De Sel (1919) - Henri Le Sidaner (1862-1939) #intimism #quest_street_scene

Norma Shearer making spirits bright.

'Daffy Down Dilly,' by Lilian Westcott Hale, 1908

'Decorating the Tree,' by Carl Larsson, 1917

Snow II Lawren Harris 1915

Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker' performed by Ballet Ouest de Montréal

'Le Déjeuner,' by Henri Le Sidaner, 1917

American actress Maude Fealy in 1902

'New England Skiing,' photo by Slim Aarons, 1955

‘Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.’ ~Anamika Mishra

'The Japanese Fan,' by Eduard Veith (Austrian 1858-1925)

In honor of Dick Van Dyke's 100th birthday, here's a painting by Sir Anthony Van Dyke: 'Elisabeth Thimbleby and Dorothy Viscountess Andover,' 1637

'Carrying in the Peacock' by John Dawson Watson, 1869

'Lucia Morning,' by Carl Larsson, 1908. Today is Saint Lucy's Day (a.k.a. Lucia) when some Swedish girls wear ceremonial candles on their heads.

As Others See Us by Martin Justice, 1925.

Cover illustration for Vogue magazine by Helen Dryden, December 1916

Autoportrait. Femme avec une grande assiette (Self. Woman with large plate), New York, 1978 - Francesca Woodman (1958-1981), photographe américaine. Souvent, elle met en scène son corps, partiellement nu, dans des environnements énigmatiques ou des lieux inhabités. #photographie #FrancescaWoodman

Jeanne la Rousse before 1912 Jules Joseph Lefebvre French art

'The Russian Princess,' illustration by Charles Robinson, 1913

Pierre Mignard : The Marquise de Seignelay and Two of her Sons, 1691 oil on canvas | 194.5 × 154.4 cm

'The Can-can,' by Georges Seurat, 1890

'Portrait of a Lady (Marie Breunig),' by Gustav Klimt, 1894

Art nouveau by Élisabeth Sonrel, 1900

Illustration for 'The Saturday Evening Post' by Albert McGran Jackson, 1930

Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker' performed by the National Ballet of Canada

Illustration for Robert Louis Stephenson's 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Jessie Willcox Smith, 1895

Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers. ~Kahlil Gibran

'First Light,' by Harold Harvey, 1919

Diana and the Stag Jean Goujon c. 1550-1554

'Princess Hyacinth,' by Alphonse Mucha, 1911

'The Library,' by Elizabeth Shippen Green, 1905

'La Moissonneuse' (The Harvester), by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1868.

Winter Bouquet by Louis Icart (1888-1950)

Hasui Kawase (Japanese, 1883–1957) "Temple at Ikegami", 1931. Color Woodcut, 36.8 × 24.7 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

'My little girl with strawberries,' Carl Larsson, 1904

'The Princess and the Pea,' illustration by Edmund Dulac, 1911

'L'Eté,' by James Tissot, 1877.

💫This week's theme is #snow! Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday with your blizzard legends, your snow sport traditions, snowflake rituals, avalanche survival, & snowy deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology💫

'The Crystal Ball,' by John William Waterhouse, 1902

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

“The Round Pond” by Esther Borough Johnson (British) - Oil on canvas / 1934 - Wolverhampton Art Gallery (England) #WomenInArt #WomanArtist #EstherBoroughJohnson #WomenArtists #ModernBritishArt #art #ArtText #BritishArt #DogArt #1930sArt #WolverhamptonArtGallery #blueskyArt #WomensArt #BritishArtist

Painting by Samuel Luke Fildes, 1875

The Middle English term elferingewort ("elf-ring"), is said to be "a ring caused by elves' dancing". Similarly, Scandinavian lore states #fairy rings are burned into the ground by the dancing elves, & we humans might want to avoid them! 🪄 #FairyTales #Folklore #art

'Interior' (1910), by Helen Galloway McNicoll. It's all about that little streak of light across the carpet.

Take the Fair Face of Woman, and Gently Suspending, With Butterflies, Flowers, and Jewels Attending, Thus Your Fairy is Made of Most Beautiful Things, 1869 by Sophie Gengembre Anderson (French-born English, 1823–1903)

Marjorie Miller (1897-1936) Queen of Winter. 1933. #ArtDeco