Bijoux à la guillotine
A (literal) gem of a find in Musée Carnavalet: French Revolution themed earrings, head of king and queen included!
Quite morbid, but perhaps delightfully so. They were made about 100 years after the revolution was over, but still!
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Louise Michel, May 29, 1830 / 2024
(image: Portrait de Michel Louise (1830-1905), pris à la prison des Chantiers à Versailles. Commune de Paris, 1871. «Louise Michel, chef des incendiaires». Photograph by Ernest-Charles Eugène Appert. Musée Carnavalet, Paris)
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Jardin du Musée Carnavalet, Paris, France | hifromalix
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(Detail) Fireworks offered by the city of Paris for Napoleon and Marie-Louise on the Trocadéro hill
1810, attributed to Francesco Piranesi
Musée Carnavalet
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Oil Painting, ca. 1790, French.
By François Bonneville.
Portraying Augustin Robespierre in a brown coat and white cravat.
Musée Carnavalet.
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Louise Abbéma (French, 1853-1927)
Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), sociétaire de la Comédie-Française, dans le rôle de Marie de Neubourg (Ruy Blas), ca. 1883, musée Carnavalet
Oil on wood
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2023 Paris, musée Carnavalet
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1902 Henri Gervex (French, 1852-1929), Portrait de Madame de Lorgeril.
Musée Carnavalet.
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January 02, 2023
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Romaine Brooks
Portrait de Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972), femme de lettres, dit "L'Amazone"
1920, huile sur toile,
Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris, P2302
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Another set of pictures from Musée Carnavalet! Robespierre, baby-faced Saint-Just & Saint-Just's gun!
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Work on metro line 1/trench under the Place de l'Etoile (1899-1902) by Gaston Brun. Musée Carnavalet.
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La promenade aux Champs-Elysées (details)
Georges-Jacques Gatine
1811, Napoleonic era
Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris
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Oil Painting, 1802-1805, French.
By François Gerard.
Portraying Juliette Recamier in a white dress and yellow shawl.
Musée Carnavalet.
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Louise Abbéma (French, 1853-1927)
Portrait de Jeanne Samary (1857-1890), sociétaire de la Comédie-Française, ca. 1879, Musée Carnavalet
Oil on canvas
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