User:Springeragh/Paintings

Officially my favourite paintings in the whole world. Don't worry, it will get better. :)

My number one favourite painting in the whole world

Pierre Auguste Cot (1837 – 1883)

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  Le Printemps

Others in random order. They're all good. ;)

Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823 – 1903)

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  Portrait of a Young Girl
  Is that in a church or something?
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  Ready for the Ball
  Oooh, a fan.
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  The Time of the Lilacs
  I have some of those…
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  Young Girl Fixing her Hair
  Why is it in Category:Blond hair on the Commons? Looks pretty red to me…
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  A Spring Beauty
  That hat just wows me out.
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  The Turtledove
  Simply amazing.
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  Take the Fair Face of Woman, and Gently Suspending, with Butterflies, Flowers, and Jewels Attending, thus your Fairy is Made of Most Beautiful Things
  Definately my favourite painting by her.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 – 1905)

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  Tête d'Etude l'Oiseau
  I just love the dress…
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  The Young Shepherdess
  Interesting I don't see any sheep…
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  Big Sis'
  I would really like to be in the littler sister's position :)
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  A Little Coaxing
  She wouldn't need to coax me—I'd give it to her almost before she asked!
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  Not Too Much To Carry
  That looks like a familiar position…
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  At The Fountain
  I think I'm speechless. I wish I could paint that.
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  A Childhood Idyll
  (I would probably have fallen asleep—good thing he never used me as a model! Well I guess it helps to have not been born until 82 years after he died…)
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  Two Sisters
  Well I've said before you can never have too much Bouguereau! :)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 – 1919)

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  The Luncheon of the Boating Party
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  Mademoiselle Irine Cahen d'Anvers
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  Dance at the Moulin de la Galette
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  Girls at the Piano

John William Waterhouse (1849 – 1917)

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  In the Peristyle
  There's nothing like simplicity + beauty—I just love it.
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  Ophelia
  Shakespeare rocks my socks anyway. :)
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  A Roman Offering
  The only thing I don't like about it is it's long and narrow. Everything else is top notch.
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  A Naiad
  "Anybody home?" :P
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  La Belle Dame sans Merci
  I saw this and a few other Waterhouses at a bed&breakfast in Southeast England and I'll never forget how beautiful they were (they were the first Waterhouses I'd seen).
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  Ophelia
  This one is even better than the other one.
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  Juliet
  If she didn't look exactly like one of my younger sisters it wouldn't be such a big deal. But she does. And I really want to kiss her. :)
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  A Mermaid
  That's the only real-looking mermaid I've ever seen—the rest are so ridiculous I just want to puke.
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  The Crystal Ball
  I actually thought that was a clock the very first time I saw it.
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  Windswept
  She looks surprisingly detached…
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  Lamia
  That looks almost Impressionistic (although not as much as the Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May series)…
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  I am Half Sick of the Shadows Said the Lady of Shalot
  Most of his late-later works I don't like, but this is an exception.
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  Miranda
  As is this.

Edmund Blair Leighton (1853 – 1922)

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  The Accolade
  My eye for detail feasts on this, simply feasts on it. Impressionism is good, but this leaves it far behind.
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  The Call to Arms
  Action building…
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  Courtship
  This little painting has about the same effect as chamber music.
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  Godspeed
  No detail is too small.
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  Lilacs
  Would you like a few?
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  The King and the Beggarmaid
  It actually took me a few seconds to notice her clothes. I actually thought it was his queen or something at first.
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  Tristan und Isolde
  I can never think of this subject without thinking of Wagner.

John William Godward (1861 – 1922)

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  A Grecian Girl
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  An Offering to Venus
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  Idleness
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  A Pompeian Lady
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  WIth Violets Wreathed and Robe of Saffron Hue
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  Yes or No?
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  A Souvenir
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  Abscence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
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  Endymion
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  In the Days of Sappho
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  The Love Letter
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  Reverie
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  The Bouquet
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  The Peacock Fan
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  Tranquillity
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  Sweet Nothings
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  Youth and Time