A curly-haired Italian boy comforts his younger sister, “Don’t Cry” in this French painting from 1878.

The engraving was made by Paul Adolphe Rajon, himself a painter and printmaker, after the oil painting by Léon Bonnat.

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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-MagazineOfArt/pages/000-frontispiece/

"Woman and Flowers," Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1866.

I've featured Alma-Tadema before, so I won't bother much with biography.

He was a huge fan of Classical Greek art and stylings, and included them a lot in his artwork, even when depicting contemporary scenes.

Here we have an obviously Victorian scene, with a sofa and all that but the table, and the woman's hair and clothing, all echo Classical Greece. It's quite a mingling of themes that works quite well. Also a rather sensual painting, in showing her obvious joy in smelling the flowers.

Happy Flower Friday!

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"Jilted," Briton Rivière, 1887.

Rivière (1840-1920) was a British painter and illustrator known mostly for his paintings of animals. He started doing academic historical paintings, but later moved on to specialize in animals, as he simply enjoyed doing it more.

In an interview with a children's magazine, he spoke of how he spent enormous amounts of time at the London zoo, sketching the animals, and also working in dissection rooms to study their anatomy and musculature. Early in his career, he also worked as an illustrator for the humor magazine Punch.

From the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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A full-page border that surrounded a page in “The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times” by W R Tymms (London, UK, 1860). A fabulous book i bought at Geoffry Aspin’s bookshop in Hay-on-Wye in the 1980s.

I made versions in different colours; you can also use the Colour tab on the Web page to change colour. It’s one of the most popular images i’ve posted.

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/pages/p27-border-antique-green/

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"A Knock at the Door," Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema, 1897.

I've featured Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema before, but not his wife Laura (1852-1909). Nearly half her husband's age, she nonetheless had a successful career as a painter and illustrator in her own right.

Her general style wasn't far from her husband's, and she specialized in sentimental scenes of childhood and domestic life, generally depicting the Netherlands in the 17th century, a result of being very influenced by painters of the Dutch Golden Age.

From the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH.

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