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Half-Title Page Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

The half-title page features anornate decorative initial "M"available as a separate image.I have not cleaned up this scan at all; let’s have some antique paper!Le Musée Artistique et Littéraire, 1880d [...]

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Added: 2012-03-31

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Front Cover, Le Musée Artistique et Littéraire Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

The front cover for the 1880 collected editions is made from marbled cardboard with a leather spine.

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Added: 2022-07-29

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Ornate rococo baroque capital letter M Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

A rococo decorative initial letter “M” taken from the title page. It is repeated on page 66 as a drop cap (drop capital), where it is given this caption:Lettre tirée d’un livre italien du commencemen [...]

Keywords: letterm, initials, floriated initials, greyscale

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Added: 2007-05-06

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Title Page, Le Musée Artistique et Littéraire Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

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Added: 2012-03-30

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Study by Rubens Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

Two men, touching their heads together at the temples, presumably in a sign of affection. They smile.This would make an awesome Valentine’s Day picture for a same-sex couple. It’s a study by Rubens; t [...]

Keywords: romance, people, men, drawings, art, beards, greyscale

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Added: 2014-01-25

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Pierrot Galant [The romantic peasant] Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

A French troubadour or wadering minstrel, with his lute over his shoulder, presents a gift with roses to a lady.There is a sketchy suggestion of curtains on the right and of an animal-fur rug on the f [...]

Keywords: romance, people, couples, musical instruments, roses, sketches, greyscale

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Added: 2017-02-08

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Cartouche With Cherubs Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

This cartouche, or border, or frame, was drawn and then engraved by the French designer Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau, or Ducerceau, in or around 1560. The cherubs look like nine or ten year old boys [...]

Keywords: frames, cartici, borders, place settings, cherubs, boys, nudity, bare feet, harpies, mythological creatures, skulls, greyscale

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Added: 2022-07-13

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Initial Leter Q From Mitelli’s Alphabet Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

Thiis decorative initial “Q” was used as a drop capital (drop cap); it is marked, “Lettre tirée de l’Alphabet de Mitelli.” The letter Q is formed from two female angels, one topless and one naked, bac [...]

Keywords: letterq, initials, angels, wings, nudity, greyscale

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Added: 2009-01-23

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Charmeuse D’Oiseaux Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

Dessin de James Bertrand, d’apreès son tableau.A naked woman sits on a rock (actually on a cloth on the rock) in a forest and blows twin pipes in this drawing or charcoal sketch.The artist died more t [...]

Keywords: nudity, people, sketches, trees, forests, musical instruments, music, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2007-01-21

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Les Enfants Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

Dessin de L. Cared, d’après le groupe de Godebsky.(Salon de 1880)Two naked children (boys?), one seated with a book and the other standing facing a wall, poised as if to write on it, with one bare foo [...]

Keywords: sketches, nudity, people, books, pictures of books, children, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2007-01-21

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Charles-Quint Triomphant Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

Dessin au fusain de C. Molony, d’après le bronze de Leone Léoni.(Musée du Prado, à Madrid.)This is an engraving of a charcoal drawing made by C. Molony after the bronze statue of Leone Léoni depicting [...]

Keywords: statues, statuary, art, drawings, wariors, armour, nudity, people, bare feet, chains, prisoners, greyscale

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Added: 2018-10-15

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L’Architectura Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

Architecture.A cherub sits on a stone plinth; the boy is naked except for a billowing cape and a sprig of leaves tied to his head. In his lap he cradles a shell. The engraving is signed H. Scott, and [...]

Keywords: cherubs, architecture, nudity, bare feet, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-04

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La Peinture Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

Painting.Dessiné et composé par Galland, d’après son plafond chez M. Sedille.I understand the caption to mean that Galland designed and painted the mural, which is at the house of Monsieur Sedille. Pr [...]

Keywords: cherubs, art, butterflies, nudity, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-04

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La Musique Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

Music.Dessiné et composé par Galland, d’après son plafond chez M. Sedille.I understand the caption to mean that Galland designed and painted the mural, which is at the house of Monsieur Sedille. Presu [...]

Keywords: cherubs, music, musical instruments, birds, nudity, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-04

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La Sculpture Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

Dessiné et composé par Galland, d’après son plafond chez M. Sedille.I understand the caption to mean that Galland designed and painted the mural, which is at the house of Monsieur Sedille. Presumably [...]

Keywords: cherubs, bare feet, nudity, sculpture, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-04

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Choral Recital with the organ Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

A choir, a small orghestra and an organ, perhaps singing a Christmas carol.There is a typo in the caption in the printed book, so that the picture is entitled Rehearsal of the killer whale!La répétiti [...]

Keywords: xmas, christmas, music, organs, choirs, people, boys, musical instruments, greyscale

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Added: 2022-07-29

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Decorative initial L Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

Lettre composée par Galland.This decorative initial (drop cap) features a cherub lying on his tummy, with flowers all around him and a tambourine nearby.The piece is signed “K. Levlille” I think, for [...]

Keywords: letterl, initials, cherubs, nudity, people, musical instruments, romance, children, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2007-01-21

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Étude a la Plume Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

pour laMort de la Vierge, par Albert Durer. (Collection Jvellanos à l’Institute de Gijon (Espagna)Study [using] the pen, forDeath of the Virginby Albrecht Dürer (Duerer). From the Jovellanos collecti [...]

Keywords: scholars, people, robes, religion, beards, sorrow, greyscale

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Added: 2007-01-30

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Decorative initial capital letter “L” by Blin Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

A decorative initial “L” used as a drop cap, and attributed to Blin, whom I take to be Jean-Baptiste Belin De Fontenay, an 17th and early 18th century French artist known as Blin.

Keywords: letterl, initials, floriated initials, ornament, greyscale

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Added: 2009-12-14

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La Sainte Crèche Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

Pignon de droite de la façade du Dôme de Sienne. Mosaïque nouvelle. Dessin de M. Marinelli, d’après le carton de L. Mussini.A nativity scene, or crib, or in the US a crêche or creche, showing the birt [...]

Keywords: christmas, nativity, people, angels, wings, infants, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Bethlehem; Palestine

Added: 2009-12-14

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