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Lucy Paquette

@hammockauthor.bsky.social
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Independent art historian, blogger, and author of The Hammock: A novel based on the true story of French painter James Tissot. Reposts Victoriana & tidbits. thehammocknovel.wordpress.com/about…

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 12h
Mrs. Luke Ionides (Elfrida Elizabeth Bird, 1848-1929) 1882 by William Blake Richmond (British, 1842-1921) Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Madame Louise Pommery [Jeanne Alexandrine Louise Mélin, 1819-1890] (1875) by Édouard-Louis Dubufe (French, 1819-1883) Musée des beaux-arts de Reims, France Widowed in 1858, she took over and expanded Maison Pommery in Champagne, France, creating the first commercially successful brut in 1874.
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Portrait of Grand Duchess Maria Fyodorovna, Princess Dagmar of Denmark (1847-1928) 1874 by Heinrich von Angeli (Austrian, 1840-1925) State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Sofía Arboleda Mosquera de Urdaneta (c. 1873) by Felipe Santiago Gutiérrez (Mexican, 1824-1904) National Museum of Colombia, Bogotá
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Portrait of Szidónia Deák (1861) by Alajos Györgyi Giergl (Hungarian, 1821-1863) Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Portrait of Princess Bariatinsky [Princess Elizaveta Alexandrovna Bariatinskaia, 1826-1902] (1858) by Franz-Xavier Winterhalter (German, 1805-1873) Private collection
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
On the Balcony by Jan van Beers (Belgian, 1852–1927) Private collection
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
From Rome (1912) by Kristofer Sinding-Larsen (Norwegian, 1873-1948) National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
On the Balcony (1912) by E. Phillips Fox (Australian, 1865-1915) Private collection
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Who Comes? (c. 1908) by Rupert Bunny (Australian, 1864-1947) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
On the Balcony (1905) by Félix Vallotton (Swiss, 1865-1925) Private collection
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
From the Balcony (1889) by Louis Béroud (French, 1852-1930) Private collection
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
On The Balcony, The Love Letter (1883) by Jules Jean Ferry (French, 1844-1914) Private collection Painted in Puerto di Santa Maria, Spain
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Woman on a Balcony (c. 1873) by Alfred Stevens (Belgian, 1823-1906) Private collection
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On the Veranda (The Blue Porch) 1909 by Howard Gardiner Cushing (American, 1869-1916) Newport Art Museum, Rhode Island
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yellow Chrysanthemums (1879) by Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904) Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow @artukdotorg.bsky.social
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Landscape with Woman (1907) by José Villegas Cordero (Spanish, 1844-1921) Museo de La Rioja, Spain
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tying Her Shoe (c. 1910) by Walter Westley Russell (British, 1867-1949) Gallery Oldham, U.K. @artukdotorg.bsky.social
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Portrait of Mrs. A. Lawrence Rotch (Margart Randolph Anderson, 1867-1941) 1903 by John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925) Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska Gown by Callot Soeurs
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Look what just arrived! I’m looking forward to reading this! @katestrasdin.bsky.social
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Portrait of a Lady with Pink Roses (1883) by Clemens Jakob Bewer (German, 1820-1884) Private collection
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Blue Ribbon (c. 1894) by Alfred Stevens (Belgian, 1823-1906) Private collection
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Portrait of Maria Soulier (1889) by Charles Hermans (Belgian, 1839-1924) Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Portrait of Luise des Coudres (1859-1915) 1877 by Ludwig des Courdes (German, 1820-1878) Private collection Luise was the artist’s daughter.
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Taking the Waters (1874) by Charles Édouard Boutibonne (French, 1816-1897) Private collection
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Isabel Álvarez Montes, 2nd Marchioness of Valderas and 2nd Duchess of Castro Enríquez (1868) by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (Spanish, 1815-1894) @museodelprado.es
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Portrait of a Lady by Charles Wynne Nicholls (British, 1831-1903) Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England @artukdotorg.bsky.social
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Passing of Summer (1912) by Harry Watrous (American, 1857-1940) @metmuseum.org In the autumn of 1911, Watrous noticed a woman seated alone at a table in a French restaurant and asked her, "Well, has Prince Charming appeared?" She replied, "No, and this is the passing of summer."
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Passing of Summer (1912) by Harry Watrous (American, 1857-1940) @metmuseum.org
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Kiss (1858) by Ferdinand Georg Waldmueller (Austrian, 1793-1865) Museum Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt, Germany
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Topaz (1879) by Albert Joseph Moore (British, 1841-1893) Private collection
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ernesta (1914) by Cecilia Beaux (American, 1855-1942) @metmuseum.org The sitter is the artist's niece, Ernesta Drinker.
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Young Woman in White (1904) by Robert Henri (American, 1865-1929) National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The sitter was a professional model, Czech-born Eugenie Stein.
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My Lady Fair (1903) by Frank Bernard Dicksee (British, 1853-1928) Manchester Art Gallery, U.K. @artukdotorg.bsky.social
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Lady in White Dress (1902) by Giovanni Boldini (Italian, 1842-1931) Gallery of Modern Art, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Portrait of Helena Cerchowa (1898) by Stanisław Cercha (Polish, 1867-1919) The National Museum in Kraków, Poland A portrait of the artist’s sister
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Young Woman (c. 1898) by Abbott H. Thayer (American, 1849-1921) @metmuseum.org Bessie Price (1879-1968), an Irish immigrant who worked as a servant in Thayer’s household, modeled for this painting, which won a gold medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition.
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Portrait of Madame la Comtesse de Cambacérès (1895) by William Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905) Seattle Art Museum, Washington
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New England Woman (1895) by Cecilia Beaux (American, 1855-1942) Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia The sitter is Julia Leavitt (Mrs. Jedediah H. Richards), the artist’s cousin.
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Portrait of a Lady (1895) by Vittorio Matteo Corcos (Italian, 1859-1933) Private collection
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Lady in the countryside (1889) by Giacomo Grosso (Italian, 1860-1938) National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Portrait of Lady Campbell, née Nina Lehmann [1861-1933] (1884) by John Everett Millais (British, 1829-1896) Private collection
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Young Lady in White (c. 1880) by Paul César Helleu (French, 1859-1927) Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indiana
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Portrait of a Woman in White (1879) by Eva Gonzalès (French, 1849-1883) Private collection
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Marguerite (1870) by William Morris Hunt (American, 1824-1879) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Portrait of a lady (c. 1856) by Francis Grant (Scottish, 1803-1878) Tate Britain
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Barbara von Schickh, as the bride of Wolfgang Ritter von Manner (1833) by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian, 1793-1865) Vienna Museum, Austria
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Apples (1877-1878) by Eva Gonzalès (French, 1849-1883) Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Lady in Yellow by Max Nonnenbruch (German, 1857-1922) Private collection
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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Jeune fille en jaune by Elisabeth Sonrel (French, 1874-1953) Private collection
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