Items by Leloir,Maurice

The Conquest 3: Through the door

As I finished my address, I raised the fair fille de chambre up by the hand, and led her out of the room; she stood by me till I locked the door and put the key in my pocket, and then, the victory bei [...]

Keywords: people, romance, doors, entrances, backgrounds, wallpaper

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Added: 2008-01-04

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Flying cherub firing an arrow

A winged cupid, a naked boy with wings sprouting from his shoulder-blades, holds an arrow ready to fire. Where his arrow lands, someone will fall in love. I have included both a large size and smaller [...]

Keywords: cherubs, romance, nudity, bare feet, wings, archery

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Added: 2008-01-16

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The Conquest 1: Perhaps a kiss?

Yes—and then—Ye, whose clay-cold heads and lukewarm hearts can argue down or mask your passions, tell me, what trespass is this that man should have them? or how his spirit stands answerable to the F [...]

Keywords: people, romance, backgrounds, wallpaper, staircases, interiors

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Added: 2008-01-04

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The Pulse.

Any one may do a casual act of good nature, but a continuation of them shows itis a part of the temperature; and certainly, added I, if it is the same blood which comes from the heart which descends t [...]

Keywords: people, costumes, romance

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Added: 2009-02-01

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Poor Marksman

Cupid is watching a Frenchman practice his archery, shooting arrows at a heart on a pole. I think [the French] arrogant bunglers; and, in truth, the worst set of marks-men that ever tried cupid’s pati [...]

Keywords: archery, arrows, weapons, cherubs, romance

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Added: 2008-01-29

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The Conquest 2: Walking down the stairs

If nature has so wove her web of kindness, that some threads of love and desire are entangled with the piece, must the whole web be rent in drawing them out? Whip me such stories, great Governor of N [...]

Keywords: people, romans, staircases, interiors, costumes

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Added: 2008-01-04

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The Grace

If the supper was to my taste, the grace which followed it was much more so. (p. 202) This appears to be a rustic country dance. In the bacground a man plays a musical instrument, perhaps a hurdy-gurd [...]

Keywords: people, dances, romance, costumes

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Added: 2008-01-20

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At the bookseller

The bookseller climbs a ladder to reach a book, which he is about to hand to a customer, a lady in 18th century dress and bonnet, in this bookshop [US: bookstore]. The bookseller made a bow, and was g [...]

Keywords: people, interiors, books, pictures of books, bookshops

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Added: 2008-05-15

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The Grace (brighter version)

A brighter version of The Grace that might be better for printing, perhaps to form the basis for a Valentine’s Day card or to make a scrap-book appear older. The trees in the background have suffered [...]

Keywords: people, dances, romance

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Added: 2008-01-20

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