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© Olga Dugina (Russian, b. 1964) and Andrej Dugin (Russian, b. 1955) • The Brave Little Tailor (Detail) • Private collection

www.duginart.com

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Maxfield Parrish (American, 1870 - 1966) • Hilltop Farm, Winter • 1949 • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

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Mela Koehler (Austrian, 1885-1960) • Mode (Fashion) • Color lithograph (applied to postcards) • 1912 • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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George Wolfe Plank (American, 1883-1965) • Illustration for Vogue • May 15th, 1920

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Amos Sewell (American, 1901-1983)

Morning Coffee Break, 1959

Oil on board

27 × 23 3/4 in (68.6 × 60.3 cm)

Private collection

The Saturday Evening Post cover illustration September 12, 1959

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 Frank X. Leyendecker (German/American, 1876 - 1924) • Harlequins • Cover for Vanity Fair, November, 1914

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Jesse Wilcox Smith (American, 1863 - 1935) • Illustration for the novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (American, 1832 - 1888) • 1915 • Boston, Little, Brown, and Company

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Artuš Scheiner (Czech, 1863 - 1938) • Illustration for King Mouselet And Prince Youth and The Bold Dwarfs' Adventures by Patricia Keith • 1905

Left: Illustration for František Ruth's Ancient Fairy-Tales • 1920

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Romain de Tirtoff Erté (Russian/French, 1892 - 1990) • Cover of Harper's Bazaar magazine • February, 1933

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Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860 - 1939) • Sarah Bernhardt as La Princesse Lointaine • Poster for La Plume magazine • 1897

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Natalia Goncharova (Russian, 1881 - 1962) • Two Russian Prinesses • Color print of a poster for J. Povolozky & Co., Paris, publisher of French and Russian books • 1924 • Pencil & watercolor and gouache on paper • Private collection

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Jenny Nyström (Swedish, 1854 - 1946) • Jultomteis Decorate for the Holidays • Illustration for Christmas cards

The jultomteis a household spirit from Nordic folklore which has always been described as a small human-like creature wearing a red cap and gray clothing, doing house and stable chores, and expecting to be rewarded at least once a year around winter solstice (yuletide), with the gift of its favorite food, the porridge. – Wikipedia

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Louis Icart (French, 1888 - 1950) • La dame aux Camelias • 1927 • Etching in colors on paper

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Elsa Beskow (Swedish, 1874 - 1963) • St. Lucia Day

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Emile Bonnet (French,1869 - 1943) • Event poster for Bal des Etudiants • 1896

Bal des Etudiants" translates to "Students' Ball" in French, referring to a formal dance event typically organized for university students, often with a festive and lively atmosphere; it's a phrase most commonly associated with a famous artwork by artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec depicting a scene from a student ball in Paris.

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Norwegian Christmas card • Unknown Artist • c. 1906

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Artuš Scheiner (Czech, 1863 - 1938) • Illustration for E.T.A. Hoffmann's novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King • 1924 • Gouache

" Godfather Drosselmeier has told me of a lovely garden where there is a great lake, upon which beautiful swans swim about, with golden collars around their necks, and sing their sweetest songs. Then there comes a little girl out of the garden down along the lake, and coaxes the swans to the shore, and feeds them with sweet cake. "