charminglust

[charminglust]

Michel Garnier (1753-1819) "La jeune musicienne" (1788) Oil on canvas

[charminglust]

Édouard Bisson

French, 1856-1939

Les messagères de l'Amour (detail)

[charminglust]

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

J.R.R. Tolkien

[charminglust]

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens

[charminglust]

Patrick William Adam

Scottish, 1852–1929

A Lady in The Room; The Morning Studio

[charminglust]

Fernand-Jean Barbier - Balerin (detail)

[charminglust]

The Continuum of Beauty - Daniel Gerhartz

[charminglust]

G. Gilles - Nymphe au bord de l'eau (detail)

[charminglust]

Ballerines du siècle dernier : « Les Trois Graces » - Marie Taglioni, Carlotta Grisi et Amalia Ferraris, par Alfred Edward Chalon (1850).

Ballerinas of the last century: “The Three Graces” - Marie Taglioni, Carlotta Grisi and Amalia Ferraris, by Alfred Edward Chalon (1850).

[charminglust]

Up next, mesmerizing paintings

1st Untitled by Richard Johnson

2nd Flaming June by Sir Frederic Leighton

[charminglust]

Flowers in paintings 🥀

[charminglust]

[charminglust]

‘Symphony of the Water Nymphs’ | Hans Zatzka | 1859 - 1945

[charminglust]

[charminglust]

Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn (detail)

[charminglust]

Alonso Miguel de Tovar (1678-1758), Doña Josepha Benavides, Marquise of Villena (detail), 1725

[charminglust]

Spring Spreads One Green Lap of Flowers, 1910, John William Waterhouse

Medium: oil,canvas