JOURNEYGIRL

 Demandez moi Abbbboouuttt?Next pageArchive

37

colourthysoul: Auguste Théodore Desch - The Letter

62

labellefilleart: The Nursery, William Merritt Chase

17

blumenstuck: William Merritt Chase - A Summer Afternoon in Holland (aka Sunlight and Shadow) (1884)

21

vcrfl: Adolph Menzel: On a Journey to Beautiful Countryside, 1892. This seems to be a first class compartment. Typically, the seats in first class were upholstered with velvet, in second class with leather, while third class had wooden benches. And yes, the conductor is really on the outside. Prussian coaches had full-length running boards, and that was the only way to get from car to car. On main lines, tickets were controlled at the platform entrance, so no conductor was necessary.

3

antolldubh: Das Ballsouper by Adolph Menzel, 1878.

1

victorianvanilla: Андрей Ремнев: Завтра будет Ветер

3

gsfdfdsa: Jan Matejko - Portrait of the artist’s four children (1879)

33

hoodoothatvoodoo: Edmund Blair Leighton ‘Sweet Solitude’

34

fleurdulys: Ball in Honour of Alexander II - Mihaly Zichy 1864

4

victorianvanilla: Mihaly Zichy Михаил Зичи

are-are-kay:

John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893)

12 notes | 16 hours ago

3

numanbaba: James Tissot “October”, 1877

62

books0977: Reading the News (1874). James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). Oil on canvas. Tissot’s pictures are distinguished most obviously by his love of painting women’s costumes: indeed, his work—which has a fashion-plate elegance and a chocolate-box charm— has probably been more often reproduced in works on the history of costume than on the history of painting.

5

6

outlawempress: James Tissot - The Bunch of Lilacs via Austriacus