Clara Ward, postcard via
Monthly Archives: October 2018
Geneviève Lantelme (ca. 1900s)
Geneviève “Ginette” Lantelme (born 1883) was a French stage actress, socialite, fashion icon, and courtesan.
Geneviève Lantelme, ca. 1900s via
The Bois de Boulogne by Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1911)
Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894 – 1986) was a French photographer and painter, known for his photographs of automobile races, planes and female Parisian fashion models
Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 1911 via
Jacques Henri Lartigue, Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 1911 via
Jacques Henri Lartigue, Bois de Boulogne, 1911 © Ministère de la Culture – France / AAJHL via
Tea Time Belle Epoque (Circa 1900)
Unknown, Tea Time Belle Epoque, Circa 1900 via
Eugène Atget Hôtel de Beauvais 68 (1902)
Eugène Atget Hôtel de Beauvais 68, rue François Miron, 1902 via
Photos of New York City by Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz (1864 – 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form.
Alfred Stieglitz, Two Towers, New York City, 1911 via
Alfred Stieglitz, Old and New New York, 1910 via
Alfred Stieglitz City of ambition, 1910 via
Alfred Stieglitz, The Flat-Iron, 1903 via
Marie Bonaparte
Princess Marie Bonaparte Princess George of Greece and Denmark (1882-1962) known as Princess George of Greece and Denmark upon her marriage, was a French author and psychoanalyst, closely linked with Sigmund Freud.
Her wealth contributed to the popularity of psychoanalysis, and enabled Freud’s escape from Nazi Germany. Marie Bonaparte was a great-grandniece of Emperor Napoleon I of France. She was the only child of Prince Roland Bonaparte (19 May 1858 – 14 April 1924) and Marie-Félix Blanc (1859–1882).
Her paternal grandfather was Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, son of Prince Lucien Bonaparte, who was one of Napoleon’s rebellious and disinherited younger brothers. For this reason, despite her title Marie was not a member of the dynastic branch of the Bonapartes who claimed the French imperial throne from exile.
Her maternal grandfather was François Blanc, the principal real-estate developer of Monte Carlo. It was from this side of her family that Marie inherited her great fortune.
Marie Bonaparte via
Vintage Portrait of Legendary Opera Singer Nellie Melba (1859-1931)
Dame Nellie Melba GBE (1861 – 1931) born Helen “Nellie” Porter Mitchell became one of the most famous singers of the late Victorian Era and the early 20th century. She was the first Australian to achieve international recognition as a classical musician.
She was an operatic soprano. She sang at Richmond (Australia) Public Hall at the age of six and was also a skilled pianist and organist, but she did not study singing until after her marriage to Charles Nesbitt Armstrong in 1882, with whom she had a son named George. In the 1890s she had an affair with Philippe, Duke of Orleans, that led to scandal and eventually divorce.
After the brief and unsuccessful marriage, she moved to Europe in search of a singing career. Failing to find engagements in London in 1886, she studied in Paris and soon made a great success there and in Brussels. Returning to London she quickly established herself as the leading lyric soprano at Covent Garden from 1888. She soon achieved further success in Paris and elsewhere in Europe, and later at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, debuting there in 1893. Her repertoire was small; in her whole career she sang no more than 25 roles and was closely identified with only ten.
Melba continued to sing until the last months of her life and made a legendary number of “farewell” appearances. Her death, in Australia, was news across the English-speaking world, and her funeral was a major national event.
Drawing of the young Nellie Melba by Frank Haviland, published 1908 via
Jenny Lind CDV by Emilie Bieber (1860s)
Johanna Maria “Jenny” Lind (1820 – 1887) was a Swedish opera singer, often known as the “Swedish Nightingale”. One of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century, she performed in soprano roles in opera in Sweden and across Europe, and undertook an extraordinarily popular concert tour of America beginning in 1850. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music from 1840.
Jenny Lind by Emilie Bieber albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s © National Portrait Gallery, London via
Otto Moritz David Goldschmidt; Jenny Lind by Emilie Bieber albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s © National Portrait Gallery, London via
Actress Ellen Terry by Julia Margaret Cameron (1864)
Julia Margaret Cameron, Ellen Terry at Age Sixteen, 1864 via
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