#Private Collections

[internationalemeteorologie]

Cuno Amiet  

Naked on a blue bedspread. 1894

[tonreihe]

“The most profound enchantment for the collector is the locking of individual items within a magic circle in which they are fixed as the final thrill, the thrill of acquisition, passes over them. Everything remembered and thought, everything conscious, becomes the pedestal, the frame, the base, the lock of his property. The period, the region, the craftsmanship, the former ownership—for a true collector the whole background of an item adds up to a magic encyclopedia whose quintessence is the fate of his object.”

—Walter Benjamin, “On Unpacking My Library”

[henrisjewelers]

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[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911) "Psyché" Oil on panel Currently in a private collection

[ryllen]

tbh i agree with this one

[blondebrainpowered]

6th century Byzantine gold openwork bracelet adorned with various gemstones and pearls

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Reading on the Garden Path Artist: Albert Aublet (French, 1851-1938) Date: 1883 Genre: genre art Period: Belle Epoque Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 54.5 cm (21.4 in) high x 73.4 cm (28.8 in) wide Location: private collection

[bodies-made-of-art]

Serena, Found of Savages by Thomas Benjamin Kennington

[artemlegere]

The Siren

Artist: John William Waterhouse (English, 1849-1917)

Date: c. 1900

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private Collection

Description

The painting depicts a siren sitting at the edge of a cliff, lyre in hand, staring down at a shipwrecked sailor floating in water, who in turn is staring up at her.

‘Oh happy seafarers are ye And surely all your ills are past, And toil upon the land and sea, Since ye are brought to us at last; But now, but now, when ye have lain Asleep with us a little while Beneath the washing of the main, How calm shall be your waking smile!’ William Morris, Life and Death of Jason, 1867

In the aftermath of a shipwreck, an exhausted survivor struggles towards the safety of the shore. He clings to an algae-clad rock without the strength to pull himself from the dark waters that surge and ebb around him. The treacherous currents and undertows threaten to pull him under the waves and almost all his strength is gone. At this moment of crisis, he is surprised by the beautiful vision of a young girl sitting on the rock above him with pearly-white skin and with lips parted in song. Her passive expression is enigmatic and whether she will help him or harm him we cannot know but we can be sure that he is spellbound by her pale beauty and magic song. Her abalone-shell harp and pearl hair decoration identify her as one of the sirens – ancient beguiling enchantresses of the ocean who lured mariners to their doom with their seductive song. The lower part of her legs, splashed by the spray of the sea, are magically transformed into the glistening fish scales and fins of a mermaid. Her hair is the auburn hue that in the nineteenth century became a potent symbol of the femme fatale. But she is not the vicious predatory sea-creature painted in continental Europe by the likes of Arnold Bocklin, Franz von Stuck or Gustave Moreau. She appears innocent of the harm her singing has caused and continues to pluck at the strings of her harp and gaze down at the drowning sailor below, as curious of him as he is of her.

[martinsharmony]

runs to check all my fics

edit: I can't find where to do this!

edit again: it's in "my preferences". the wording is a little different than what it says in earlier reblogs fyi

Help needed regarding AO3 collections, the FAQ didn't help me (bad at reading currently)

I heard that if someone adds your fic to their collection, and they then put the collection on private, then your fic will not be visible to other people anymore

I need to know if that's true?

[internationalemeteorologie]

Zeen Chin

[preraphaelitepaintings]

Midsummer Eve

Artist: Edward Robert Hughes (British, 1851–1914)

Date: 1908

Medium: Oil painting

Collection: Private Collection

[wombywoo]

vintage 📷

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911) "Fatima" (1883) Oil on canvas Currently in a private collection

[artsandculture]

Mystery and Melancholy of a Street (1914) 🎨 Giorgio de Chirico 🏛️ Private Collection 📍 Somewhere

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: The Fairy Wood Artist: Henry Meynell Rheam (English, 1859-1920) Date: 1903 Genre: fantasy art; medievalism Medium: pencil and watercolor on paper Dimensions: 72.1 cm (28.3 in) high x 77.2 cm (30.3 in) wide Location: private collection