Showing posts with label versailles palace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label versailles palace. Show all posts

Sunday, May 22, 2011

paris postcard: versailles, inside (day 2)

nice bow
louis xiv. 1668 (oil on canvas), by henri testelin

the boudoir of marie-antoinette...

and her little secret doorways



the feathers, looking fresh and foofy as ever.

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portantine/portantina of pope leo xiii. 1887,

i love the sculpted "drapery"
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restoration
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bataille de fotenoy, May 11, 1745.
by horace venet 1828.
bataille de fotenoy, detail
the gallery

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all photos taken may 21, 2011
© anita aguilar

paris postcard: versailles views (day 2)




whoa. not parisienne style...


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the lovely l'orangerie






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all photos taken may 21, 2011
© anita aguilar

paris postcard: pretty city, day 2 - pretty with pink

a favorite shot from versailles...

may 21, 2011
photo © anita aguilar