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Historical Female Portraits

Sketches and drawings of women from different eras, showcasing a variety of clothing, poses, and artistic styles. Mood varies from contemplative to elegant.

Oure Ladye of Saturday Night, Drapery Study for Angel Holding a Bowl of Water, 1847 Ford Madox Brown, Art Movement, Pre-Raphaelite, Drawing, Pencil, Angel, Sketch, Embroidery, Bowl, Cross, Study, Clothing, Dress, Bow, Costume, Dress
Oure Ladye of Saturday Night, Drapery Study for Angel Holding a Bowl of Water, 1847 Ford Madox Brown, Art Movement, Pre-Raphaelite, Drawing, Pencil, Angel, Sketch, Embroidery, Bowl, Cross, Study, Clothing, Dress, Bow, Costume, Dress
257 assets in this story
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Mary Cassatt, Repose, c 1890 Repose
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Study Woman with a Jar 1887 Switzerland. Black and red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tan wove paper . Pierre Victor Galland
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DANSEUSE ESPAGNOL(sic).. Artist: Paul Gavarni, French, 1804-1866
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The Sick Child (No. 2) by Mary Cassatt, created around 1889, is a drypoint print on cream laid paper. The image dimensions are 22.9 x 15.6 cm (9 x 6 1/8 in.), and the overall sheet size is 29.2 x 21.5 cm (11 1/2 x 8 7/16 in.)
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Madame Réjane. Artist: Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (British, Brighton, Sussex 1872-1898 Menton). Dimensions: sheet: 14 x 9 1/16 in. (35.6 x 23 cm). Sitter: Portrait of Madame Réjane (1857-1920). Date: 1894. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Austria, Vienna, Young woman at her toilette, around 1635, quill pen and brown ink, brown and grey washes
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Standing Woman. Constantin Guys (Holland, Flushing, active France, 1805-1892). Holland, 1805 - 1892. Drawings. Pen and brown ink and gray wash
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Drawing, A woman drawing; Jessie Curtis; pencil on paper
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Girl with Cigarette II. Artist: Anders Zorn, Swedish, 1860-1920
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Edelfelt, Albert, Sketchbook, at least partially 1887, drawing, 26.5 cm x 37.5 cm, Edelfelt, Albert, at least partially 1887, Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt 1854 - 1905, Finnish painter. Painting in a naturalistic style and with a Realist approach to art. He lived in Finland
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The Rubens Hat 1875 James Tissot French. The Rubens Hat. James Tissot (French, Nantes 1836-1902 Chenecey-Buillon). 1875. Etching on laid paper; first state of two. Prints
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Feeding. .
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'Alice with a long neck', 1889. Artist: John Tenniel.
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Femme au Mirroir (The Bonnet) Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926). Femme au Mirroir (The Bonnet), ca. 1891. Drypoint on cream-colored laid paper, Plate: 7 5/16 x 5 3/8 in. (18.6 x 13.6 cm). American Art ca. 1891
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The Quiet Hour Henry Wolf (American, born France, 1852-1916). The Quiet Hour, 1915. Wood engraving on fine tissue paper, 7 7/8 x 4 13/16 in. (20 x 12.2 cm). American Art 1915
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Masks and faces: Women afraid of a glass of wine... Paul Gavarni; French, 1804-1866. Date: 1857-1858. Dimensions: 202 × 162 mm (image); 423 × 300 mm (sheet). Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Sketchbook with manuscript notes Félix Bracquemond, Bracquemond, Félix, 1833-1914, pencil, pen, ink, and watercolor, ca. 1868-ca. 1874, Drawings and watercolors of forests and vegetation in Balleroy, Calvados; preliminary designs for prints
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Portrait of Ana�s Aubert (dummy title)
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Design for an unknown Subject (perhaps from Dante), 1852. Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Study of Man at Table with Water Pitcher for The Trial (recto); Study of a Person at Table and Door for the Trial (verso). Jack Levine; American, 1915 - 2010. Date: 1946-1955. Dimensions: 209 x 269 mm. Graphite (recto and verso) on tan laid paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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"Rosa spinosissima". Winkler, Karl Gustav Adolf (1810-1893), draughtsman, cartoonist
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At the studio - painter before his easel; verso: varia: Helena Modrzejewska in the costume of Mary Stuart (upper part of the theme, continued on k. 5.) and male figure and outline of childs head. Boznańska, Olga (1865-1940), draughtsman, cartoonist
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After-Dinner Coffee (recto), c. 1889. Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926). Graphite ; sheet: 20 x 14 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.). Cassatt exhibited prints for the first time in 1880 at the fifth Impressionist exhibition. As the decade progressed, she continued to show her graphic work alongside pastels and paintings. In the spring of 1890, at the Deuxième Exposition de Peintres-Graveurs, she showed a group of drypoints, remarkable in their delicacy and precision, as well as a group of prints made with a combination of aquatint and softground etching that appeared quickly drawn and spontaneous. After-Dinner Coffee is a study for a softground etching with aquatint.
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Metamorphosis / it cries but it retains the place (IT)
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Repose Made 1890 United States. Etching in dark brown ink on off-white laid paper . Mary Cassatt
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Cover for the portfolio, The Painters-Lithographers (Les Peintres Lithographes) Made 1892 France. Lithograph in yellow, black, orange-red, blue-green, and olive on cream wove paper . Alexandre Lunois
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Portrait of Alice Helleu in the Louvre, Paul César Helleu, c. 1895 print Mrs. Helleu looks at the drawings of Jean Antoine Watteau in the Louvre. paper drypoint historical persons. art collection, art gallery. drawing Louvre Museum
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James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903), Reading, 1879, lithograph in black on cream wove paper
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Mary Cassatt, The Fitting, American, 1844-1926, 1890-1891, color drypoint and aquatint
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Brewery maids and Virgins at home Cercha, Stanis AW (1867 1919)
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Pencil and watercolor study by Marie Lippert-Hoerner from 1886 showing drapery, emphasizing folds, texture, and composition.
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Recto - Front. Found - Study for the Man and Woman together, 1853-54. Recto: Sketch of two figures together... Verso: a rough tracing of the outlines of the figures.. Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Javanese girl Siti, seated, draughtsman: Jan Veth, c. 1874 - c. 1925, cardboard, h 309 mm × w 251 mm
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Arcyksiężna austriacka Hildegarda Ludwika Bawarska (1825-1864) córka Ludwika I Wittelsbacha i Teresy Sachsen-Hildburghausen,.żona arcyksięcia Albrechta Fryderyka Habsburga,. Rietschel, Ernst Wilhelm (1824-1860), painter
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Girl in Bonnet. Edward Henry Corbould; English, 1815-1905. Date: 1896. Dimensions: 90 × 69 mm. Graphite drawing on paper. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Aristide Bruant, in His Cabaret 1893 France. The gallant performer Aristide Bruant became known throughout Montmarte for the ability to capture the sentiments of working-class Parisians in his songs. Here Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec illustrated the essence of the audacious singer, portraying his trademark hat, scarf, and cloak in broad, flat planes of color to create an iconic image. Bruant himself was often seen in this garb on stage at his famous cabaret Le Mirliton, where he offered his witty, often-acerbic diatribes against the upper class.. Color lithograph on tan wove paper . Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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The Hat with the Blue Ribbons Edwin Austin Abbey American. The Hat with the Blue Ribbons 10044
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Miss Cecilia Clifton Made 1840 France. Cut paper silhouette . Auguste Edouart
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Giacomo Feeding a Dog 1738-1739 Italy. Black chalk with stumping, with traces of charcoal, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue-gray laid paper, discolored to cream, laid down on cream wood-pulp board . Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
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To Bullier's. Dated: c. 1876. Medium: color etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JEAN LOUIS FORAIN.
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Head of Doris (Kopf Doris) Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880-1938). Head of Doris (Kopf Doris), 1907. Color lithograph in red and green on laid Japan paper, Image (irregular): 10 7/16 x 8 9/16 in. (26.5 x 21.7 cm). European Art 1907
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The Roadside Henry Wolf (American, born France, 1852-1916). The Roadside, 1915. Wood engraving on fine tissue paper, 6 x 10 in. (15.2 x 25.4 cm). American Art 1915
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Over the Teacups, Clarence Underwood
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Portrait of Three Adolescents 1817 France. Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper . Monogrammist B.D.P.
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Edelfelt, Albert, work, Sketch book, drawing, 9 cm x 15.5 cm, Edelfelt, Albert, Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt 1854 - 1905, Finnish painter. Painting in a naturalistic style and with a Realist approach to art. He lived in Finland
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The Letter. Artist: Mary Cassatt (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1844-1926 Le Mesnil-Théribus, Oise). Dimensions: plate: 13 5/8 x 8 15/16 in. (34.6 x 22.7 cm)sheet: 17 x 11 3/4 in. (43.2 x 29.8 cm). Date: 1890-91. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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A 1918 black chalk drawing by Egon Schiele depicting his mother, Maria Schiele, on Japanese paper.
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Mary Cassatt, The Picture Book (No. 1), American, 1844 - 1926, c. 1901, graphite
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Girl followed by an older woman with sailing ships in the background, Youth and old age, draughtsman: Jan Toorop, 1901, paper, h 160 mm × w 198 mm
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Woman on the bridge of Europe Norbert Goenuette (1854-1894). Woman on the bridge of Europe. Floor, Pointe-Dry.
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Automobile Girl, Harrison Fisher
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Girl , Karl Wiener -, artist
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The Letter. Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926); printed with Leroy (French, active 1876-1900). Date: 1890-1891. Dimensions: 345 x 211 mm (image/plate); 437 x 297 mm (sheet). Color aquatint with drypoint, from three plates, on off-white laid paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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The Hamilton Children, 1835, Sir David Wilkie, Scottish, 1785-1841, 23 1/4 x 18 5/8 in. (59.06 x 47.31 cm), Watercolor, graphite, charcoal and chalk, white wove, Scotland, 19th century
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Portrait Head Paul-César Helleu (French, 1859-1927).. Drypoint on wove paper, 21 5/8 x 13 9/16 in. (55 x 34.5 cm). European Art
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Miranda and Ferdinand, illustration for Act V, Scene i, TheTempest. Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897
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Edelfelt, Albert, work, Sketch book, drawing, 11 cm x 17 cm, Edelfelt, Albert, Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt 1854 - 1905, Finnish painter. Painting in a naturalistic style and with a Realist approach to art. He lived in Finland