Art Nouveau and Fairy Imagery

Elegant artworks in Art Nouveau style, featuring graceful women and whimsical fairies amidst floral motifs, capturing the charm of the late 19th century.

 A fairy supports herself on a  stem by holding onto grasses        Date: circa 1880
A fairy supports herself on a stem by holding onto grasses Date: circa 1880
DALI Salvador(1904-1989) Can't anyone unleash us Capricho-75 1977 Based on Capricho Francisco Goya's etchings etching 39x31Salammbo, Alphonse MuchaLady using chamber pot by Konstantin Andreyevich Somov, color lithograph, 1908, 1869-1939, Russia, Moscow, Russian State Library, 7x10, 5Queen in chair with dog,  from The Hind in the Wood,  by Walter Crane,  1890,  (1845-1915),  USA,  Illinois,  Chicago,  Newberry LibraryNow housed at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, this painting reflects Bellini's passion for Eastern cultures. Originally commissioned by Fatih Sultan Mehmet II in 1479 to go to Constantinople to paint portraits of the sultan for two years, the Venetian painter was strongly influenced by Ottoman traditions and fashions. Come Down cried the Hero's wife - From the Russian Story Ilya meets Svyatogor and parts with himEUROPE, Italy, Sorrento Tile work, painted womanThe Odyssey. Jean Leon Gerome (1824-1904). Oil on canvas, 98.5 x 78cm.Naked woman with mirror and scales, Bernard Willem Wierink, 1915 print Probably New Year's wish for 1916.  paper  mirror. scales. the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) - AA - female human figureEcho. Robert Payton Reid (1859-1945). Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1906. 61 x 46cm.The Three Ages, Sections of a Woman's Life in Three Stages, from Child to Girl in Love to Old Woman, 1890, after a painting by G. Lavergne, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century originalElf prince rejected by a fairy on a toadstool. Handcoloured woodblock print by Edmund Evans after an illustration by Richard Doyle from In Fairyland, a series of Pictures from the Elf World, Longman, London, 1870.Museum of Saint Anthony. Saint Anthony with baby Jesus. Panel of tiles. 1790.  Lisbon. Portugal.A red-faced king stands in a red robe, flanked by a queen and the deity Mercury in green clothes; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.Tarot Card 8 - La Justice (Justice).   Date: 20th centuryLa Primavera (Detail) Ca. 1481 Sandro Botticelli (1444-1510 Italian) Tempera On Wood Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, ItalyWorcester evening gazette. Easter souvenir.. Worcester evening gazette. Easter souvenir.Piotr Stachiewicz (1858-1938), Wniebowzie, from the series "Legend of the Mother of God"; Czernecki, Jan (Wieliczka, Kraków; Publisher; 1905-1939), Anczyc, W Adys Aw Ludwik and Spóka (Kraków; Drukarnia; 1875-1948); 1911 (1911-00-00-1911-00-00);Gold Coin , Girls, Stoves, 19th Century American Trade CardsPhoto album with 48 photos, English, anonymous, diverse manufacturers, 1860 - 1920  Photo album with 12 sheets with a total of 48 photos. The album contains portraits, family portraits and photo productions of drawings. The photos were mainly made in England by Church & Brantingham, Jas Dickinson and M. Glover.  photographic support. cardboard. leather. metal. deck paint albumen print / gelatin silver print historical persons. adult man. adult woman. boy (child between toddler and youth). head-gear: hat. sitting figure - AA - female human figure. fan. family group, especially parents with their child(ren). anonymous historical persons portrayed in a group, in a group-portraitAbril/1894. Museum: COLECCION PARTICULAR. Author: MAURICE DENIS.The zodiac signs by Nérac / No. 5. / Gemini / Siamese brothers of destruction. (IT)Oehmigke & Riemschneider, Neuruppin picture sheets (approx. 1840): Two colored angels (No. 5161). Print colored on paper, 34.5 x 42.2 cm (including scan edges) Oehmigke & Riemschneider : Neuruppiner BilderbögenSeries The Fairy Tale of Frau Holle 3, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from ca 1900Lady with puttoes, illustrated cover by Rudolf Rossler (1864-1934), woodcut by Richard Bong (1853-1935) from Moderne Kunst (Modern Art), illustrated magazine published by Richard Bong, 1892-1893, Year VII, No 10, Berlin.Frieze. Date/Period: 1906-07. Frieze. Machine-printed on paper. Height: 915 mm (36.02 in); Width: 490 mm (19.29 in). Author: Gledhill Wall Paper Co.Schäfer Carl (1844-1908), Restoration Heidelberg Castle. Friedrichsbau (1900): View glass window with motifs: Fortitudo. Tusche, pencil watercolor on the box, 52.6 x 45.9 cm (including scan edges) Schäfer Carl  (1844-1908): Restaurierung Heidelberger Schloss. FriedrichsbauIllustration by Leon Carre for 'Le Chariot de terre cuite' (The terracotta chariot), by Victor Barrucand, (1864 - 1934); French journalist and writer. 1921. Leon Carre (1878 - 1942), was a French Orientalist painter and illustrator.Serenade, Harrison FisherLa Tour aux Lanternes  Henri Eugene Le Sidaner (1862-1939 French)  Christie's Images,  New York, USA   The little mermaid sits on a  rock and gazes at the lights  of the distant townillustration of English tales, folk tales, and ballads. A woman with a star on her face and a flower in her hairThe Letter D (Is For Dairymaid,  Ducks),  from book ABC by Theodore Howard,  USA,  Illinois,  Chicago,  Newberry LibraryIllustration by Alphonse Mucha from "Clio" a work by French author Anatole France; 1900. Mucha (1860 - 1939); was a Czech Art Nouveau painter vintage painting of a decorative easter-scenePortrait of Carlotta Grisi in Giselle', 1841. Artist: Theophile Gautier. Pierre Jules Theophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.The seducer - The amorous advances by a young Russian on a pretty girl with flowers in her hair.     Date: circa 1902Valentine before 1880 Anonymous. Valentine. Anonymous. before 1880. White card stock with chromolithography, gold lithography, openwork lace paper, pink tissue, beige paper, dark red watercolor'Happy New Year', French postcard, c1900. Artist: UnknownAutumn (detail from a work named: The 4 seasons). C. 1907, Gaspar Camps i Junyent. Museu del Modernisme Catala. Barcelona.'Arachne - Native De Colophon', 1403, (1939). Artist: Master of Berry's Cleres Femmes.The girl and death ,Marianne Stokes ,1900 , Museo de Orsay, Ministerio de Cultura y Comunicación Francés, Paris, France,.Woman by lake by Alfons Marie Mucha, colour lithograph, 1896, 1860-1939, Russia, Moscow, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, 98x50, 5The Letter 'W' (is for Winter,  Woman...),  from book ABC by Theodore Howard,  USA,  Illinois,  Chicago,  Newberry LibraryChristmas card. France. 1902. Engraving.Switzerland still image. Postcards. 1898 - 1931. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography CollectionThe century magazine for June , Reading, Periodicals, RosesBelgian Poster for l' Absinthe Robette. Livemont, Privat Antoine Théodore (1861-1936), Artist.1480s AN ANGEL PLAYING THE VIOLIN BY MELOZZO DA FORLI RENAISSANCE PAINTER Calendar magazine for July 1898, Theo Nieuwenhuis, 1897 print A rectangular framework filled with the days of the month of July and around it flowers, leaves, butterflies and a woman in a floured robe that holds a flower. Amsterdam paper  flowers. ornament derived from plant forms. insects: butterfly. dress, gownDove - Have Kindly Thoughts of Me by Artist Unknown,Pride goeth before a fall - A vintage illustration of an old proverbI had a little nut tree and nothing would it bear. Illustration by the English artist Walter Crane (1845-1915) for a book of nursery rhymes 'Sing a Song of Sixpence' (London, 1866). Colour-printed wood engraving.Remembrances 1997 Gerry Charm (20th C./American) Collage One Summer, Book CoverPortada del libro "Los mejores versos para niños", de María Romero. Editado por Empresa Editora Zig-Zag, S.A., de Santiado de Chile, año 1953.