Victorian Flowers

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I was invited to the Palais Garnier and damn, it was breathtakingly beautiful.

Opera Garnier. Paris, France.

A Thorn Amidst the Roses, 1887, by James Sant (1820-1916)

♕Whispering Dreams♕ |  Château De Chantilly, Interior Detail, Oise, France

Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Courtly Gala Dress with Diamond Stars” (detail)

“Psyche in the Temple of Love” (1882) (detail) by Sir Edward John Poynter (1836-1919).

Franz Xaver Winterhalter, detail, Portrait of Princess Pauline de Metternich, 1860.

Oil on canvas, 115 × 87.5 cm., oval. 

Private collection.

Such Beauty - Victorian Floral Paintings

The Roses of Heliogabalus, by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1888 details

Édouard Louis Dubufe — Karoly II Marko. detail. 1820 – 1883

Detail of The Blossom of Youth, 1898, by Władysław Czachórski (1850-1911)

The Voyage of Life, Old Age (detail) by Thomas Cole, 1842.

The Goddess Juno entering the Mansion of Sleep, Vicente López Portaña (Spanish, 1772–1850), 1829

Oil on canvas