#1864 Museum

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ La femme au chat (Woman with a Cat).

Artist: Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877)

Date: 1864

Medium: Oil on canvas

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Göteborgs naturhistoriska museum Pteropus poliocephalus

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[digitalfashionmuseum]

Beige Silk Ball Gown, ca. 1864, French.

Designed by Emile Pingat.

[rebelyells]

June 19, 1864 Battle of Cherbourg France. The CSS Alabama was sunk by the USS Kearsarge. But not without a fight. This shot is still embedded in the side of the Kearsarge today at the Navy Yard. Both the quality of the powder and the coal were thought to have played a part in the Alabama’s loss. The British yacht the Deerhound rescued many in the crew including Captain Semmes. Unfortunately David White a slave from Delaware, who had been freed by Captain Semmes, from a Yankee ship, drowned that day. He is forever immortalized in the sea.

[thetelesterion]

Demeter, goddess of fertility and the harvest, an image likely based off of a Roman original. (Updated description due to deeper research!!) After doing digging this image is not in fact from the temple of Eleusis but is rather a modern version of a (possibly) Roman relief of a similar kind!

The image which likely served as the basis for the modern one, photograph taken in 1864. Image source Right now it's really unknown where this original relief came from as there's little to no information from the museum listing I found this on, but I will continue to update this as time goes on if I find more info. For anyone else, feel free to update and reblog if you find more info before I do! UPDATE: original image source has been found for the Roman relief, it is located at the Lourve! Source

[frostedmagnolias]

Day Dress

c. 1862-1864

McCord Stewart Museum

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

David Roberts (Scottish, 1796-1864) Interior of the Cathedral of St Stephen, Vienna, 1853 Birmingham Museums Trust

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ROSA HARRIET LENOX 1864.

THEODORE JENSEN.

Pontypridd Museum.

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SET SEVEN - ROUND TWO - MATCH ONE

"The Meeting On The Turret Stairs" (1864 - Frederic William Burton) / "Stańczyk" (1862 - Jan Matejko)

THE MEETING ON THE TURRET STAIRS: The fact that it's watercolor… Jesus Christ, Dude. Also I am biased because I run a weekly scheduled post for it (Meeting on the Turret Stairs Tuesday) so I would be letting myself down not reblogging it haha (@dorknewton)

STAŃCZYK: this piece pictures a jester contemplating the political disasters befalling the country, presumably as the court is celebrating in the other rooms. it takes place when the polish nobility was essentially selling out the territories to neighbouring regimes, ignorant of the fact they were issuing a permission for colonisation and oppression of their own people. while it’s context is extremely specific, it remains to feel relevant considering the actions of those in power even in the modern society. i think the climate anxiety has a similar vibe; feeling like you’re isolated in your care while the higher ups are celebrating their own greed. (anonymous)

("The Meeting on the Turret Stairs" is a watercolor painting by Frederic William Burton. It measures 95.5 x 60.8 cm (37.6 x 24 in) and is held by the National Gallery of Ireland.

"Stańczyk" or "Stańczyk during a ball at the court of Queen Bona in the face of the loss of Smolensk" is an oil on canvas painting by Jan Matejko. It measures 120 cm × 88 cm (47 in × 35 in) and is held by the Warsaw National Museum.)

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“The Marble Polisher”, 1882-87 by Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). French painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Princeton University Art Museum. oil on canvas

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The Birth of Venus

I’ve started making posts where I dive into certain artistic depictions of Lady Aphrodite. Many are technically Lady Venus but they’re generally depicted the same. I’ve created one on The Birth of Venus by Botticelli already, and an anonymous person requested The Birth of Venus by Cabanel, so here you go!

Alexandre Cabanel

Alexandre Cabanel was a French painter born on September 28, 1823, in Montpellier, France and died on January 23, 1889 in Paris. He tended to paint historical, classical, and religious subjects in the “academic style”. Cabanel was Napoleon III’s favored painter.

Description of the Painting

The Goddess Venus, depicted as pale with long, orange hair, lays on the waves, looking to be asleep or just waking up. Above her, the Erotes, winged babies, blow on seashells and watch over her.

About the Painting

The birth of Venus was painted in 1863 using oil on canvas. Its dimensions are 150 cm × 250 cm (59 in × 98 in), and it is displayed in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Two smaller versions from 1864 and 1875 are on display in the Dahesh Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When painted, this artwork was immediately purchased by Napoleon III for his personal collection.

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Blue Silk Dress, ca. 1864, Probably French.

Met Museum.

[ltwilliammowett]

HDMS Jylland (1860) is a Danish steam frigate which took part in the Battle of Heligoland on 9 May 1864, and is preserved as a museum ship in the small town of Ebeltoft, located on the Djursland peninsula in Denmark

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Dress, American, c. 1864-1865

The MET Museum

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Natural History Museum - London 

The Museum first opened its doors on 18 April 1881, but its origins stretch back to 1753 and the career of Sir Hans Sloane, a doctor and collector. Sloane travelled the world as a high society physician. He collected natural history specimens and cultural artefacts along the way. After his death in 1753, Parliament  bought his extensive collection of more than 71,000  items, and then built the British Museum so these items could be displayed to the public. In 1856 Sir Richard Owen - the natural scientist who came up with the name for dinosaurs - left his role as curator of the Hunterian Museum and took charge of the British Museum’s natural history collection. Unhappy with the lack of space for its ever-growing collection of natural history specimens, Owen convinced the British Museum's board of trustees that a separate building was needed to house these national treasures. He drew-up a rough architectural plan in 1859 entitled 'Idea of a Museum of Natural History'. The plan was later referred to by architect Alfred Waterhouse in the design of the Natural History Museum. In 1864 Francis Fowke, the architect who designed the Royal Albert Hall and parts of the Victoria and Albert Museum, won a competition to design the Natural History Museum. However, when he unexpectedly died a year later, the relatively unknown Alfred Waterhouse - a Quaker architect from the north of England - took over and came up with a new plan for the Museum. Waterhouse used terracotta for the entire building as this material was more resistant to Victorian London's harsh climate. Construction began in 1873, and the result is one of Britain’s most striking examples of Romanesque architecture — considered a work of art in its own right and has become one of London's most iconic landmarks. Owen's foresight has allowed the Museum to display very large creatures such as whales, elephants and dinosaurs, including the beloved Diplodocus cast that was on display at the Museum for 100 years. He also demanded that the Museum be decorated with ornaments inspired by natural history. And he insisted that the specimens of extinct and living species kept apart at a time when Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was revealing the links between them. Along with incorporating Owen’s ideas into his plans, Waterhouse also designed an incredible series of animal and plant ornaments, statues and relief carvings throughout the entire building – with extinct species in the east wing and living species in the west. Waterhouse sketched every one of these sculptures in great detail, even asking Museum professors to check the scientific accuracy of his drawings, before creating the fantastic decorations that complement the Museum’s exhibitions.  While the building reflects Waterhouse’s characteristic architectural style, it is also a monument to Owen’s vision of what a museum should be. In the mid-nineteenth century, museums were expensive places visited only by the wealthy few, but Owen insisted the Natural History Museum should be free and be accessible to all. The Museum took nearly eight years to build, and moving the collections from the British Museum in Bloomsbury was a huge job. Relocating the zoological specimens, which included huge whale bones and taxidermy mammals, took 394 trips by horse and cart spread over 97 days. The Natural History Museum finally opened in 1881. The building’s decorative and Romanesque style by Waterhouse is reminiscent of medieval European abbeys, but it is also a monument to Owen’s vision of what a museum should be: the world’s largest and finest institution dedicated to natural history.

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/history-and-architecture.html

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/virtual-museum.html