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𖥻 Women in art

Ophelia

The Lady of Shalott

Isabella and the pot of Basil

Lady Godiva

Medea

Circé

Guenievre

Juliet

Venus

Miranda

Esther

Lilith

Mariana in the South

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Portrait of Corinna Salmon, Vittorio Matteo Corcos

Judith with the Head of Holophernes, Fede Galizia

Vanity, Frank Cadogan Cowpercos

Portrait of Empress Eugénie in Court Dress, Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Interior of the British Institution (Old Master Exhibition, Summer 1832), by Alfred Joseph Woolmer

Ophelia, Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser

Smell - The Lady and the Unicorn

The Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck

Grace Rose, Frederick Sandys

The birth of Venus, Alexandre Cabanel

Jupiter and Io, Antonio Allegri

Evening by the Lake, Max Nonnenbruch

Juliet on the Balcony, Thomas Francis Dicksee

The Martyr of Solway, John Everett Millais

𖥻 The Women of Impressionism

Berthe Morissot

Marry Cassat

Eva Gonzales

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Midsummer Eve (1908), by Edward Robert Hughes

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The sleeping beauty (1921), by John Collier

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God Speed (1908), by Edmund Blair Leighton

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The Little Foot Page (1905), by Eleanor Portescue

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Zodiacal man - Book of Hours (1416), by Limbourg Brothers

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Mariana (1851), by John Everett Millais

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Juliet on the Balcony (1875), by Thomas Francis Dicksee

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Evening by the Lake, by Max Nonnenbruch

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━ Eva Gonzales (1849–1883) ;

She was born in Paris to a novelist father and a musician mother who, in turn, supported their children’s creative abilities. At a young age, she studied under Charles Chaplin at his private studio for female artists, and later, in 1869, Edouard Manet took her on as model and then his only private student.

The must common themes were portraits and studies of landscape, domestics scenes, women and childrens. It is partially because of her ‘feminine’ themes that she is among the other impressionist artists of her time. By the mid-1870s, she began to experiment with other media besides oil painting and became quite skillful in the use of pastels.

But Gonzalès’ oeuvre stands out in that she did not seek to be shown in Impressionist salons. Instead, she focused on the prestigious and traditional Paris Salon.

The Little Soldier, 1870

L'Indolence, 1871-1872

Dieppe Beach towards the west cliffs, 1871

The Little Lever, 1875

Nanny with a child, 1877–1878

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━ Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) ;

She was the only American among the founding Impressionists. She came from a well-off family in Pittsburgh that supported a formal arts education first at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and then in Europe, after the vaunted Philadelphia school rebuffed her requests to study nude models.

She settled in Paris in 1874, where she began regularly showing her portraits in the Salon. In 1877 Degas invited her to begin showing with the Impressionists, and she participated in four of the eight exhibitions.

Cassatt's work combined the light color palette and loose brushwork of Impressionism with compositions influenced by Japanese art as well as by European old masters , and she worked in a variety of media throughout her career. This versatility helped to establish her professional success at a time when very few women were regarded as serious artists.

Woman with a Pearl Necklace, 1879

Margot in Blue, 1902

A Woman and a Girl Driving, 1881

The Boating Party, 1893-1894

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Jupiter and Io (1532-1533), by Antonio Allegri

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The birth of Venus (1863), Alexandre Cabanel

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Grace Rose (1866), by Frederick Sandys

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The Arnolfini Portrait (1434), by Jan van Eyck

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Smell - The Lady and the Unicorn

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Ophelia (1921), by Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser