Vintage Servant

In Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, the servants are able to identify Gray’s corpse by the elaborate rings on its hand.

The other side depicts a scene of a maid showing a basket of flowers to a lady, while another lady observes some birds and a male servant is apparently rolling a yard stick. A relief...

This exquisite tapestry features the scene: "Scènes galantes," part of the series of tapestries "La Vie Seigneuriale," portraying aristocrats and their servants amidst a vibrant mil...

This exquisite tapestry features the scene: "Scènes galantes," part of the series of tapestries "La Vie Seigneuriale," portraying aristocrats and their servants amidst a vibrant mil...

For those times when you are not happily creating flowery totems they would serve beautifully to display precious objects or an array of shared bowls at your next dinner party. Glamo...

About the artist After deciding to abandon his career as a civil servant in favor of art, Wilhelm Groß went to Berlin in 1902, where he studied with the sculptors Otto Lessing and A...

Sergeant was born in London, the son of a civil servant. His family soon moved to Faversham in Kent after they were bombed during World War II.

The Italian characters known as zanni, or servants, were a part of Stravinsky's opera for the Ballet Russes, but of all of them, Harlequin is the smarter zanno.

When he wasn’t creating artwork, Schoonhoven worked as a civil servant at the Dutch Postal Services for three decades.

On the left side of the field, a hunter on horseback and his standing servant holds his prized game, while a white dog stands by.

Drawing inspiration from a combination of Pieter van Aeist and French Medieval style, this vintage tapestry depicts the royal aristocrats and their servants. This is a reproduction f...

There are 8 cups on the bottom portion to hold the candle for each night of Hanukkah and one cup on the top to serve as the servant light. The motifs are a bird on the top left and o...

Toutefois, Picasso n'utilise ce vocabulaire formel classique que pour mieux le réinterpréter et le réinventer servant ainsi son approche libre de la création. Arlequin au miroir repr...

With only one bedroom, plus bedrooms for servants, it was built in 1935 at 10000 Tampa Avenue, Northridge, on a plot of 13 acres in California's then-rural San Fernando Valley for th...

The reverse of the dog is cast with an S, a mark that Polleti & Richarme note may refer to the dogs of either Rallye Sivry (active 1867 through 1880) of the Viscount Aguado, or of Ra...

The main ones depicts, the Chinese Emperor enthroned, with courtesans around and the standing figure of the Empress surrounded by servants. The secondary two small side panels depict...

Greta arrived in England penniless in January 1939 to work as a domestic servant and to find a guarantor for her husband. Hermann arrived in May 1939.

Margaret, who was always known as “Marjorie” was born in Friern, Barnet, London on 31 July 1898, the daughter of artist and civil servant Henry James Howard. She grew up at Sutton, ...

An English expat living in New York City, Quentin Crisp came to prominence following the publication of his 1968 autobiography, The Naked Civil Servant. The book, which details Crisp...

Sergeant was born in London, the son of a civil servant. His family soon moved to Faversham in Kent after they were bombed during World War II.

The fully clothed female at the pool offering food is a servant. A boxy-looking radio with a pack of cigarettes and the style of the cars give glue to the date.

An English expat living in New York City, Quentin Crisp came to prominence following the publication of his 1968 autobiography, The Naked Civil Servant. The book, which details Crisp...

There, on their 111 1/82 acres of waterfront property -- which included a carriage house, servants' quarters, a pond with an island and a footbridge -- they would set up a kind of ar...

Sergeant was born in London, the son of a civil servant. His family soon moved to Faversham in Kent after they were bombed during World War II.

The story begins in the years before WWII when a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a servant in a geisha house. Despite a treacherous rival who nearly break...

In an attempt to keep jewelry exclusive Justinian ruled that only he got to decide who wore the finest jewels by presenting his favorite ‘servants’ with presents from the imperial wo...

My mind becomes a creative servant while my spontaneous heart takes the lead.

. , in what Palencia himself baptized as El Convivio and which later became known as the second Vallecas School, embryo of the Madrid School.4 5 Last years His need for silence and ...

They lived there until 1914 when tragedy struck. An insane servant tragically murdered Cheney and six others, then set fire to Taliesin.

They lived there until 1914 when tragedy struck. An insane servant tragically murdered Cheney and six others, then set fire to Taliesin.

During the political revolution Lenin expropriated Shchukin collection in person but allowed Shchukin to remain, in servants’ quarters, as caretaker and guide. He died in Paris, in 1...

During the political revolution Lenin expropriated Shchukin collection in person but allowed Shchukin to remain, in servants’ quarters, as caretaker and guide. He died in Paris, in 1...

During the political revolution Lenin expropriated Shchukin collection in person but allowed Shchukin to remain, in servants’ quarters, as caretaker and guide. He died in Paris, in 1...

During the political revolution Lenin expropriated Shchukin collection in person but allowed Shchukin to remain, in servants’ quarters, as caretaker and guide. He died in Paris, in 1...

During the political revolution Lenin expropriated Shchukin collection in person but allowed Shchukin to remain, in servants’ quarters, as caretaker and guide. He died in Paris, in 1...

During the political revolution Lenin expropriated Shchukin collection in person but allowed Shchukin to remain, in servants’ quarters, as caretaker and guide. He died in Paris, in 1...

Featured are governesses whose jobs are to train the ladies of the house all manners and etiquette, as well as the maids and servants proper ways of service. They are dressed in trad...

During the political revolution Lenin expropriated Shchukin collection in person but allowed Shchukin to remain, in servants’ quarters, as caretaker and guide. He died in Paris, in 1...