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Elegant Women in Historical Settings

A collection of portraits featuring women in elegant attire, often engaged in music or thoughtful poses, set in serene, romantic backdrops, showcasing classic artistic styles.

The Music Hour 1790 Marguerite Gerard (1761-1837 French) Oil on canvas Pushkin State Museum, Moscow, Russia
The Music Hour 1790 Marguerite Gerard (1761-1837 French) Oil on canvas Pushkin State Museum, Moscow, Russia
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Portrait of young girl Jean-Baptiste Greuze (after). "Portrait of young girl". Oil on canvas. Paris, Cognacq-Jay Museum.
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Mr. & Mrs. Andrews Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788/English) National Gallery, London
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Alfred Stevens, Moonlight (Au clair de la lune), c. 1885, oil on panel.
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Couple in park by Francois Boucher, oil on canvas, 1740, 1703-1770, Russia, Moscow, State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, 61x75
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Thomas Couture; French; 1815-1879; Soap Bubbles; ca 1859; Oil on canvas.
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Young Woman Drawing by Marie Denise Villers (Paris 1774-1821 Paris) Oil on canvas.
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The Afternoon Concert - Out of Tune. Vittorio Reggianini (1858-1938). Oil on canvas. 68 x 91.4cm.
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Self-portrait by Sukhovo-Kobylina, Sofia Vasilyevna (1825-1867) State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Oil on canvas 37,9x27,9 Russia Russian Painting of 19th cen. Portrait Painting
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The Sense of Sight, seeing, group of five persons, The Sense of Sight, a painting by Philippe Mercier (1689-1760), Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a historical original
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Portrait of girl by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, oil on canvas, 1750s, 1725-1805, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Hermitage, 65x55
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Young Lady with Drawing Utensils by Vogel von Vogelstein, Carl Christian (1788-1868) State Art Gallery, Dresden 1816 Oil on canvas 70x48,5 Germany Academic art Portrait,Genre Painting
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Portrait Of A Man And Woman, 1818 By William Owen, Oil Painting, Animal, Dog, Spaniel, Portrait
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MADAME VANDEVILLE Y SU MADRE - S XIX. Author: JEAN AUGUSTE DOMINIQUE INGRES. Location: MUSEO THOMAS HENRY. CHERBOURGO. France.
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Bubbles 1886 John Everett Millais (1829-1896 British)
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RAOUX, Jean (1677-1734). Young Woman Reading a Letter (Jeune fille lisant une lettre). beg. 18th c. Romanticism. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. ëLE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Louvre Museum.
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A Man Writing at his Desk, Jan Ekels (II), 1784 painting Interior with a man writing to a desk on a table. There are two paintings on the wall: a landscape and a man's portrait. Northern Netherlands panel. oil paint (paint) writing-table, writing-desk
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Countess of Chinchon (Mary Therese Bourbon and Villabriga). La Condesa de Chinchon (Dona Maria Teresa Borbon y Villabriga). 1800. Oil on canvas (216 x 144). Madrid, Prado museum. Author: FRANCISCO DE GOYA. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Maids on Balcony by Goya also known as Francisco de Goya y Lucientes ( Fuendetodos 1746-1828 Bordeaux) Oil on canvas.
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Woman with white doves, painting by Gustave Courbet, ca 1870, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.
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Julie Le Brun (1780-1819) Looking in a Mirror 1787 Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun Vigée Le Brun represents her only child, Julie, both in profile and full-face through the inclusion of a mirror and impossible perspective. The resulting double image, which draws on earlier artists allegorical figures of Sight, plays on reality versus illusion in painting. Vigée Le Brun submitted three paintings of her daughter, including this work, to the Salon of 1787; approximately two years earlier, she had depicted Julie in a nearly identical composition. These portraits capture a new appreciation in late eighteenth-century Europe of childhood as a unique, impressionable moment of life distinct from adulthood.. Julie Le Brun (1780-1819) Looking in a Mirror. Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755-1842 Paris). 1787. Oil on canvas. Paintings
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Orazio Gentileschi (1563 -1639). Italian painter. Two women with a mirror, c.1620. Alte Pinakothek. Munich. Germany.
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'Empress Eugenie surrounded by her ladies in waiting', c1920. Artist: Arthur Leonard Cox.
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Dressing Up. Francois Louis Lanfant de Metz (1814-1892). Oil on canvas. 55 x 46cm.
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Alicia and Jane Clarke 1758 by Arthur Devis (1712-1787) Oil on canvas
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'Three Young Ladies with Flowers and Musical Instruments'. Holland, 1649. Dimensions: 120x187 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: WILLEM VAN HONTHORST.
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Sarah Siddons (1755-1831). English actress. Mrs Siddons with the Emblems of Tragedy. Painting by SIr William Beechey (1753-1839). Siddons, holding a tragic mask and a dagger, is shown with a monument to Shakespeare. Oil on canvas (245,6 x 153,7 cm), 1793. National Portrait Gallery. London, England, United Kingdom.
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England, London, Heartford House, The Wallace Collection Museum, Painting titled 'A Lady Playing the Guitar' by Caspar Netscher dated 1669
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Home Scene Thomas Eakins (American, 1844-1916). Home Scene, ca. 1871. Oil on canvas, 21 7/16 x 18 in. (54.4 x 45.7 cm). Model Sisters Thomas Eakins and John Singer Sargent were just beginning their hugely successful careers when they turned to cherished sisters as their models for these two intimate works. Although both had studied figure painting in Paris, they found powerful inspiration in Dutch and Spanish seventeenth-century painting (especially the works of Rembrandt van Rijn and Diego Velázquez), famous for their expressive description of light and shadow. Eakins painted his sister Margaret (1853-1882) overseeing the younger Caroline (1865-1889) at a time when their mother was gravely ill. Sargents similarly tender and richly brushed portrait of his little sister Violet (1870-1955) is his earliest surviving oil portrait. American Art ca. 1871
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A Young Woman playing a Harpsichord', c1659. Artist: Jan Steen. Jan Havickszoon Steen (1626-1679) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, one of the leading genre painters of the 17th century.
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Schenk, Pieter (I), Netscher, Caspar, Woman playing a viola da gamba, verso - stamped, A young woman is playing the viola da gamba, she has put her foot on a footstool. On the table next to her is a music stand with sheet music., print, engraving, prints, engravings, height 335 mm, width 247 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1660-12-26 - 1711, print maker, printmaker, 1670 - 1713, paper, papier, mezzotint, engraving (printing process), 1639 - 1684-01-15, after, after a painting by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher
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Cherub Holds Music Book for Woman Playing the Cello, Violin & Cello
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Austrian composer Date: 1756 - 1791
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The Lace Maker' c1664: Johannes Vermeer (1632-1674) Dutch painter. Oil on canvas.
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England, London, Heartford House, The Wallace Collection Museum, Painting titled 'A Lady Playing the Guitar' by Caspar Netscher dated 1669
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Boy Playing Marbles. oil on canvas. Date: ca. 1858. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Birth of the Heir, William Redmore Bigg, 1755-1828, British
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Woman Playing Lute, Gentileschi, Orazio
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Denis, Maurice (1870-1943) State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow 1893 45x54 Oil on canvas Fauvism France
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Melancholy; Pruszkowski, Tadeusz (1888-1942); 1925 (1925-00-00-1925-00-00);The interwar period, contemporary painting, female portraits, violinist, purchase (provenance)
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Sulking, Edgar Degas, circa 1870, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York City, USA, North America
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St Roch in Prison, by Reni Guido, 1617 - 1618, 17th Century, oil on canvas. Italy. Emilia Romagna. Modena. Estense Gallery. Detail of dog's muzzle
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Eliseo Sala. 1813-1879. Melancholy of Pia deTolomei. 1846. oil painting on canvas cm 121 x 90.
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Seville 1887 Sweden. Watercolor and gouache on paper, laid down on board . Anders Zorn
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Two Young Girls at the Piano 1892 Auguste Renoir French In late 1891 or early 1892 Renoir was invited by the French government to execute a painting for a new museum in Paris, the Musée du Luxembourg, which was to be devoted to the work of living artists. He chose as his subject two girls at the piano. Aware of the intense scrutiny to which his submission would be subjected, Renoir lavished extraordinary care on this project, developing and refining the composition in a series of five canvases. The Lehman painting and the nearly identical version formerly in the collection of Renoir's fellow Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte have long been regarded as the most accomplished variants of this intimate and engaging scene of bourgeois domestic life. Listen to experts illuminate this artwork's story Listen Play or pause #4800. Two Young Girls at the Piano Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies We're sorry, the transcript for this audio track is not available at this time. We are working to ma