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Portraits of Women in Art

Artistic representations of women from various periods, depicting a range of attire and settings, emphasizing elegance and feminine beauty.

Young woman on a sofa, Achille Devéria, 1831 print Paris paper couch, sofa, settee. adolescent, young woman, maiden. dress, gown
Young woman on a sofa, Achille Devéria, 1831 print Paris paper couch, sofa, settee. adolescent, young woman, maiden. dress, gown
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The Artist Artist's working dates 1820-1857 France. Crayon and tusche lithograph on ivory wove paper . Achille DevériaUne Dame de Chypre. Artist: Abraham Bosse (French, Tours 1602/1604-1676 Paris); Gilles Rousselet (French, Paris 1614-1686 Paris); After Claude Vignon (French, Tours 1593-1670 Paris). Dimensions: sheet: 13 3/8 x 8 7/16 in. (34 x 21.4 cm). Publisher: Published by Pierre Mariette (French, 1596-1657). Series/Portfolio: Galerie des Femmes fortes. Date: 1647. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Susana was a woman who appears in the Book of Daniel, daughter of Hilkiah and wife of Joaquin, a wealthy and influential Jew in the Babylonian Exile. Two elderly judges are passionate about Susana and agree to surprise her alone and abuse her. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Mugeres de la Biblia by Joaquin Roca y Cornet 1862Je Prierai PourEux. Artist: Paul Gavarni, French, 1804-1866A Stendhal , Authors, Supernatural beings, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Stendhal, 1783-1842. Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Lithographs and Other PrintsLévy, Henri-Léopold (n.1840-09-23-D.1904-12-30), Study (main title). Charcoal on paper put on the tile. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.Portrait of Rachel Wriothley, James Mcardell, After Anthony Van Dyck, 1758 print London paper historical persons - BB - woman. clouds. (human) skull. sphere, globe ~ stereometryBust of a young woman; Tête d'Une Jeune Fille. Bust of a young woman with flowers in the hair.Medora. Ary Scheffer. Leprix. copy of a painting; Charles Taber & Co; 1870-1872; Albumen silver printThe Eendracht. Draughtsman: Louis Fabritius Dubourg. Dating: 1747. Measurements: h 189 mm × w 140 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.Portret van Elisabeth Keppel, Edward Fisher, 1761 - 1785 print Text in English in the print. Garlandes held by the black page, while the white woman floral wreaths hangs on an altar. London paper historical persons. page ~ courtNicolas Eustache Maurin, La Toilette (Tiré du Cabinet de Mr. Grille), 1809-1850, lithograph on chine appliqué.Enter Mistress Anne Page with wine - Act I, Scene I, Merry Wives ofWindsor. Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897Terpsichore; The nine muses. A series of nine muses. Four rules Latin from Franco Estius in margin under print.Marie Anne Eliza Napoleon Sister The GreatLady Sarah Bunbury Made 1766 Ireland. Mezzotint on ivory laid paper . Edward FisherAmsterdam, Roos, Cornelis Sebille (publisher), Kuyper, Jacques, Netherlands, Claessens, Lambertus Antonius, Enlightenment, Allegory of the Enlightenment, 1795, verso - stamped, 1795. The female personification of the Enlightenment floats above the world and shines her light on Europe., print, prints, Frederik Muller History plates, height 232 mm, width 158 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1763-11-21 - 1843-10-06, print maker, printmaker, 1795 - 1795, paper, stipple work, color printing, 1761-06-29 - 1808-06-01, intermediary draughtsman, after drawing by, Publication (Event), Publication, Dutch, 1754-01-10 - 1820-01-31, publisherStone drawing by Anton Kern representing summer from the series 'The Four Seasons,' circa 1740.Woman for a dressing table bare in the mirror looking her breasts; La Curieke. .Print made by Charles Corbutt, Irish, Miss Fordyce, between 1762 and 1766. Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream, laid paper.Carolina Alajmo, Achille Astolfi , ArtistJames Watson, 1740-1790, British, Miss Fordyce. Mezzotint.Hallam, Isabella .Drawing by Heinrich Friedrich Füger showing Melida seated by the sea, executed in bister, feather, and chalk with white highlights.Lairesse, Gerard de, Haarlem, Wit, Izaak Jansz. de, Utrecht, Minerva, verso - stamped, print, print drawing, drawings, height 192 mm, width 157 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1744-12-09 - 1809-03-13, print maker, printmaker, 1754 - 1809, paper, crayon method, color printing, 1641 - 1711, intermediary draughtsmanUne Lecture (A Lecture). Dated: 1822. Medium: lithograph on chine applique. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: PIERRE-PAUL PRUD'HON.Standing Nude Girl by Boucher, Francois (1703-1770) / Albertina, Vienna / Rococo / / France / Black and white chalk, sanguine, pastel / Nude painting / 34,7x20Body Sorrow, Pieter van den Berge, 1675 - 1737, A man, en face, seated on a mound of earth, with both hands on his chest and distorted features., draughtsman: Pieter van den Berge, 1675 - 1737, paper, brush, pen, h 127 mm × w 100 mmThe nautical.Reproduction of a painting: Władysław Czachórski (1850-1911), For him ; from: "Tygodnik Ilustrowany", 1894(I)345. Jericke, Richard (Lipsk ; zakład graficzny ; 1879-1911), printing house, Tygodnik Ilustrowany (Warszawa ; czasopismo ; 1859-1939), publisherGirl with Fan, Facing Right. Dated: 1784. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki.Pysche. Pysche was so beautiful that Venus was jealous and sent her son Cupid to punish the damsel. Cupid fell in love instead, and helped Pysche through all the attacks of his mother. At one time, Venus sent her to Hades, the abode of the dead, to bring back a box. Pysche had strict orders not to open the box; so of course she did, and a vapor rose from it which nearly killed her. The picture shows her hesitant, about to peep in the box, while from behind, Cerberus, the three-headed watch-dog of Hades, croaks a harsh warning to her.Hearing; Hiring; Five senses presented by women's figures; That funfish sinne. A woman is sitting at a tree. She loves her finger to silence.Piping woman, anonymous, c. 1680 - c. 1700 print England paper pipe ~ tobaccoKleopatra (to Guido Reni). .drawing Raphael from Windsor Castle, standing woman with flowers, Charles Thurston Thompson.Musidora 1825 Asher Brown Durand American. Musidora 390115Musidora. Artist: Asher Brown Durand (American, Jefferson, New Jersey 1796-1886 Maplewood, New Jersey). Dimensions: plate: 16 7/8 x 12 1/8 in. (42.9 x 30.8 cm)sheet: 20 1/4 x 14 7/16 in. (51.5 x 36.7 cm). Printer: Burton & Valentine (New York, NY). Date: 1825. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Chinoiserie with a woman playing a musical instrument, from Suite de Figures Chinoises. .Tiré du Cabinet de Mr. d'Azaincourt (Series of Chinoiserie Figures. .From the Chambers of Mr. d'Azaincourt), plate 5 1755-76 Jean Pierre Louis Laurent Hoüel French. Chinoiserie with a woman playing a musical instrument, from Suite de Figures Chinoises. .Tiré du Cabinet de Mr. d'Azaincourt (Series of Chinoiserie Figures. .From the Chambers of Mr. d'Azaincourt), plate 5. Suite de Figures Chinoises. .Tiré du Cabinet de Mr. d'Azaincourt. Jean Pierre Louis Laurent Hoüel (French, Rouen 1735-1813 Paris). 1755-76. Etching and engraving. Gilles Demarteau (French, Liège 1722-1776 Paris)Saal, Therese.The Quadroon Girl, 1887. William Baxter Palmer Closson (American, 1848-1926). Wood engraving;Toqués, toqués, Plate 1 from 'Les Toquades', 1858, Paul Gavarni (Sulpice-Guillaume Chevalier), French, 1804-1866, 17 3/4 x 12 3/8 in. (45.09 x 31.43 cm) (sheet), Lithograph, France, 19th centuryCybele or Rhea, Roman great mother seated on a chair holding a cornucopia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving engraved by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf after illustrations by Leonard Defraine from "La Mythologie en Estampes" (Mythology in Prints, or Figures of Fabled Gods), Chez P. Blanchard, Paris, c.1820.Copper engraving by Sebald Beham depicting music with musicians, instruments, and allegorical symbols illustrating musical activity.Print made by John Jones, ca. 1745-1797, British, Lady Gertrude Fitzpatrick as Sylvia, 1791. Stipple engraving, aquatint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream, laid paper.La Femme et la Folie dominant le monde. Félicien Victor Joseph Rops (Belgium, Namur, 1833-1898). Belgium, 1886. Prints. HeliogravureImage reproduction: Emilia Dukszyńska-Dukszta (1847-1898), Śpioszek; Z: "Tygodnik Ilustrowany", 1884 (II) 73; Tygodnik Ilustrowany (Warsaw; magazine; 1859-1939), Kleczeńska, Józef (Fl. Ca 1868-Ca 1887), Dylczyński, Cyprian (1835-1913); 1884 (1884-00-00-1884-00-00);Spanish dancer, Johannes Josephus Aarts, 1881 - 1934 print A dancing woman dressed in a dress and with lit her. She wears a stole around her shoulders. Japanese paper (handmade paper) etching woman dancing aloneJOSEPHINE, empress of France, in the park at Malmaison Date: 1763 - 1814Woman sitting in a garden next to a large garden vase. Draughtsman: Taco Scheltema (I). Dating: 1770 - 1837. Measurements: h 308 mm × w 249 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.Raffael (Raffaelo Santi) (1483-1520), Portrait of the Fornarina (approx. 1830): Portrait of the Fornarina for Raffael engraved for the Düsseldorf art association. Pressure on paper, 56.8 x 47.6 cm (including scan edges) Raffael (Raffaelo Santi) (1483-1520): Bildnis der FornarinaStock, Anna Maria Jacobine.White Lady, Print made by Edward Scriven, 1775-1841, British, after Henry Howard, 1769-1847, British, Published by Chapman and Hall, 1833, Line engraving with hand coloring in watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paperPortret van Rudolf Agricola, Theodor de Bry, after Jean Jacques Boissard, c. 1597 - c. 1599 print Portrait of the humanistic scholar Rudolf Agricola, in oval with edge script and a Latin verse in a cartouche. Flowers and insects are incorporated in the decorative list. Frankfurt am Main paper engravingFlora, sculpture by Francesco Barzaghi (1839-1892), woodcut by Richard Bong (1853-1935) from Moderne Kunst (Modern Art), illustrated magazine published by Richard Bong, 1892-1893, Year VII, No 3, Berlin.Flora według obrazu Tycjana. Kisling, Gottlieb (1790-1846), draughtsman, cartoonist, Wilczyński, Jan Kazimierz (1806-1885), publisher, Tiziano Vecellio (ca 1488-1576), painterSpring. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones., after 1868, Great Britain, by Edward Burne-Jones, The Berlin Photographic Company.The title card for the album of Hans Makart. unknown, Makart, Hans (1840 1884)Gilline with lute, Louis Jaurbey, 1869 print Young woman named Gilline with lute. paper etching adolescent, young woman, maiden. lute, and special forms of lute, e.g.: theorboBanknote motif: a child's portrait and two patterned ovals surrounded by a floral frame ca. 1824-37 Attributed to Asher Brown Durand American. Banknote motif: a child's portrait and two patterned ovals surrounded by a floral frame 393951Floating women's figure a cup. DESIGN FOR A WALL Painting.Odilon Redon, La sirene sortit des flots vetue de dards (The Siren clothed in barbs, emerged from the waves, 1883 La sirene sortit des flots vetue de dards (The Siren clothed in barbs, emerged from the wavesMedina, Josepha Maria.The Hague, Lankhout & Co, Samuel, Amsterdam, Allebé, August, Oriental woman, The woman sits on a cloth and leans back., print, prints, height 390 mm, width 286 mm, Dutch, 1838-04-19 - 1927-01-10, print maker, printmaker, 1884 - 1884, paper, tone lithography, chalk lithography, printer, Publication (Event), Publication, publisherMater Amabilis. Sassoferrato, 1609-1685. 1786 - 1850. Anderloni, Faustino, 1766-1847. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print CollectionBookplates. Artist: Heinrich Vogeler, German, 1872-1942Naked woman sitting holding a book Naked woman sitting, holding a book. Daguerreotype. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, small palace.LETTERS FOR THE MAILPastel drawing by Francesco Bartolozzi depicting Hebe and Jupiter transforming into an eagle, showing mythological figures and action.Melkmeisje, Mathias de Sallieth, after Jacob Perkois, after Johannes Huibert Prins, 1818 - 1833 print Print at the bottom numbered: 17. paper etching MilkmaidJulius Hübner drew on the last bench in the church according to the painting by Carl Hübner. A clip from a German magazine. Brend'amour, Franz Robert Richard (1831 1915), Hübner, Carl Wilhelm (1814 1879), Hübner, Julius (1806 1882)Dancer Annette Köbler, the pas-de-shawl performer, draughtsman: Bartholomeus Ziesenis, Oct-1812, paper, pen, brush, h 215 mm × w 327 mmResting young woman and child by a wall, François Boucher, 1756 print paper etching resting - BB - out of doors. mother and baby or young childFrieze shaped ornament with medallion of head of a woman. Draughtsman: Johannes van Dregt. Dating: 1780. Measurements: h 61 mm × w 281 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.Juliet: -O happy dagger! This is thy sheath…” - A Churchyard - Act V, Scene III, Romeo and Juliet. Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897Fairness, Louis Fabritius Dubourg, 1747Lakshmi Bai, the Rani of Jhansi (c.19 November 1835 17 June 1858) was the queen of the Maratha-ruled princely state of Jhansi, situated in the north-central part of India. She was one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and a symbol of resistance to the rule of the British East India Company in the subcontinent.Portrait of Margriet van Goyen, Jean Heudelot, after Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1750 - in or after 1768 print publisher: Amsterdampublisher: Paris paper engraving / etching historical personsPythagoras .