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Summer Idleness, Day Dreams, John William Godward
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Mariana Sir John Everett Millais 1851
Source: tate.org.uk
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
La Maladie D’Antiochus, ou Antiochus et Stratonice (detail)
1840
Oil on canvas
Musée Condé. Chantilly, France.
Charles Sprague Pearce Lamentations over the Death of the First-Born of Egypt (detail) 1877 oil on canvas 38 1/2 x 51 1/2 in. (97.8 x 130.8 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum
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The Letter by Auguste Toulmouche, 1879 France
Her postulation, the gesture which covers her mouth, indicates proper domestic etiquette and behavior for bourgeoise women in the late 19th century: a lady is to be seen and not heard. She stares off coquettishly, quietly smiling in response to the letter she has just read, which has been set on the table while she reflects on her suitors advances.