Burgundy Baron's Blog

The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen by Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740–1812) 1788, oil on canvas, 52.9" x 77.9"

Conversation by the Spring by Henryk Siemiradzki (1843–1902) Oil on canvas laid on board, 21.26" x 39.37" Siemiradzki was a Pol...

The Light-house by Alfred Noyes (1880-1958) A short story from the 1918 book,  Walking Shadows: Sea Tales and Others .

Untitled (landscape, boat moored near stream, man walking in foreground) by Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828-1901) 1879, oil on canvas, 14...

The End of Time by Wallace West (1900-1980) A fantastic science fiction short story from the March 1933 issue of Astounding Stories . ...

Cider Pressing by George Henry Durrie (1820-1863) 1855, oil on canvas, 22.25" x 30.25" Durrie was an American painter, he was b...

Farmstead Under Clouds in Late Summer Light by Paul Wilhelm Keller-Reutlingen (1854–1920) oil on canvas, 29.13" x 41.73" Keller...

The Königssee in the Berchtesgadener Land by Carl Schultze (born 1856) oil on canvas, 29.5" x 38.2" Schultze was a German paint...

The White Island—A Story of the Dardanelles by Edward Eyre Hunt (1885-1953) From the 1918 book of short stories about World War I, Tales ...

The Gate in the Old Town in Warsaw by Aleksander Gierymski (1850–1901) 1883, oil on canvas, 25.1" × 19.2" Gierymski was a Polis...

A Michigan Man by Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935) First published in 1891 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine : volume XLVII.

The Rose, or the Performer's Tour by Moritz von Schwind (1804-1871) 1846-1847, Oil on Canvas, 85" x 52.7" Schwind was an Au...

Italian Mountain Landscape. Scene by the vicinity of Subiaco. by Anders Christian Lunde (1809–1886) Oil on Paper Mounted on Canvas, 12.9...

Common Swifts by Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939) 1886, oil on canvas, 16.1" × 22" Liljefors was born in Uppsala, Sweden

The Fair at Bezons by Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695-1736) circa 1733, oil on canvas, 42" x 56" Pater was a rococo painter; he was b...