Elle aimait trop le bal, c’est ce qui l ‘a tuée.. [Victor Hugo, Fantômes]
Waltz of Death by Gustave Adolf Mossa, 1906
Watercolor and black chalk
from The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
thanks to ubu507
Reflection
Anonymous, French School
photogravure after stereoscopic photograph, c.1860
Venetian mirror with chandeliers?! Wanted!
But where to find something like this nowadays,hm?
photo from LIFE
Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe by Alberto Martini *
via MONSTER BRAINS
Sorcellerie by Jan Frans De Boever *
Illustration by Rhea Wells for Peter N.Krassnoff’s The Black Mass,1931
scan from Voluptuous Panic
[book available here]
Psyche the Witch Girl by Stephen Fabian
more @ The Pictorial Arts: Witchery
Six HS sorority girls re-enacting solemn, secret initiation ritual by candlelight for photographer because only a real member has ever seen the real thing,1944
by Nina Leen
via LIFE
Candelabras in Cocteau’s Beauty and The Beast,1946
via witch
liquidnight:Alfred Eisenstaedt - Valentina [Schlee], the Russian-born designer and famous New York hostess, lights an 18th century candelabrum at one of her dinner parties, 1944
From Eisenstaedt: Remembrances
via Dr.Macro’s
Black Mass,Casino de Paris,1927
via didierbaronofa
one more special edition of LL,few more gorgeous works by Brassaï
[Gyula Halász [previously on bits&bites,here;]