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The Blue Room (La chambre bleue) is a 1923 painting by French artist Suzanne Valadon. One of her most recognizable works, it has been called a radical subversion of representation of women in art.

A movie poster for the French film "Vidocq" from the early 1920s.

A winged nymph carries a bicycle to the masses in this 1890s French poster advertisement.

Poster art for the Dayton cycles (made in USA) and marketed around the world. This ad is from Paris in the 1890s.

Italian advertising poster art for the Stucchi Cicli, late 1800s.

A poster advertisement for Clement bikes in Paris from the 1800s. A bike is held aloft by the spirit of speed.

A poster advertising the Acatene Metropole bicycle from 1800s Paris.

A poster advertising Mercier bicycles in Paris.

A poster advertising Raleigh bikes from the late 1800s.

A Cat Resting on All Fours, Seen from Behind (1861) by Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)

Weiße Katze und zwei Zitronenfalter by Arthur Heyer (German, 1872-1931)

The zodiac sign Scorpio from and ancient book.

Art of the astrological symbol Pisces from an ancient book.

Sagittarius depiction from an ancient textbook.

Taurus is depicted in an ancient astro.logical book

An ancient illustration of Pegasus. I guess he's not in the lineup anymore?

An ancient depiction of Aquarius.

A page from an old book of the signs of the zodiac.

Leo is depicted on an ancient chart of the sky.

Aries is depicted in ancient art.

Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) (1884) by John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925)

The Nubian Guard (1883) by Charles Knighton Warren. A badass with a cool helmet and scimitar stands guard.

Pop art depicting six women posing in multicolored dresses.

by George Markendorff. Depicts a 1900s race between 3 cars (each with a driver plus a mechanic) probably reaching the breakneck speed of 25 miles per hour.

A painting by Ramón Casas (Spanish, 1866 – 1932). It depicts two people wearing fur coats in an open antique car.

Thurston the Magician makes a Willys-Overland automobile vanish. Promotional poster ca 1920.

A young couple canoodle on a rocking chair in this English photo from the late 1800s.

In socialism is liberation, a poster for the Marxist Unifivation Workers' Party (Partit Obrer d'Unificacio Marxista, or POUM)

A WWII poster. We beat them before, we'll beat them again!

Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States

Yay for the team thing where sweaty people run around and "score"!

Yay for the team thing where sweaty people run around and "score"!

Yay for the team thing where sweaty people run around and "score"!

A man stands guard at the door of a palace.

A couple stroll down a rain-slicked street in Paris. Painted in 1877.

A NASA make-believe travel poster