Category: Portait of a Lady
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01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Philip Hermogenes Calderon’s Roman beauty, with Footnotes. #168
Philip Hermogenes Calderon RA (Poitiers 3 May 1833 – 30 April 1898 London) was an English painter of French birth (mother) and Spanish (father) ancestry who initially worked in the Pre-Raphaelite style before moving towards historical genre. He was Keeper of the Royal Academy in London. Calderon planned to study engineering, but he became so interested…
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04 Photographs, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Edwin Bower Hesser’s JEAN HARLOW ALMOST NUDE, with Footnotes. #165
Jean Harlow (born Harlean Harlow Carpenter; March 3, 1911 — June 7, 1937) was an American actress. Known for her portrayal of “bad girl” characters, she was the leading sex symbol of the early 1930s and one of the defining figures of the pre-Code era of American cinema. Often nicknamed the “Blonde Bombshell” and the “Platinum Blonde”,…
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01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Pegah Samaie’s Defiance, with Footnotes. #161
Pegah Samaie is an American-Iranian artist who was born and grew up in Tehran, Iran. Pegah’s art moves through the shadow of her past life. She uses art as a tool to face the experiences she and other women have encountered in a culture dominated by patriarchal governments and households. Her early experiences in Iran changed…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Ender’s Danger inflammable, with Footnotes. #160
Mixed media: torn posters and a stencil made with a spray can mounted on canvas. During his interventions on the walls, Ender collects posters. Most often, he uses the reverse side of these posters, which thus keep the imprint of the previous poster. These are broken down into more or less large pieces, like an…
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06 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, The Nieces of Cardinal Mazarin at the court of King Louis XIV of France, with Footnotes. #159
Depicted: Hortense Mancini, Olympia Mancini, Marie Mancini Please follow link for full post
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Christine Spengler’s Marguerite Duras, La violence du Mékong, with Footnotes. #158
Marguerite Donnadieu (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Duras was born in southern Vietnam and lost her father at age 4. The family savings of 20 years bought the family a small plot in Cambodia, but everything was lost in a single…
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02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Henryk Ippolitovich Siemiradzki’s THE GIRL OR THE VASE, with Footnotes. #157
A sketch for a larger painting, also known as “The Presentation of a Slave” (Below). In an elegant interior, two traders, one in red, the other in blue, offer a young woman. You are about to open the white robe of the woman and present the naked beauty to a seated older, white-clad gentleman who…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Henri Baptiste Lebasque’s PORTRAIT OF A LADY IN RED, with Footnotes. #155
Henri Lebasque (25 September 1865 – 7 August 1937) was a French post-impressionist painter. His work is represented in French museums, notably Angers, Geneva (Petit Palais), Lille (Musée des Beaux-Arts), Nantes, and Paris (Musée d’Orsay). He started his education at the École régionale des beaux-arts d’Angers, and moved to Paris in 1886. Around this time, Lebasque…
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06 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Evelyn Nesbit, by Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr., Otto Sarony, Gertrude Käsebier, George Grey Barnard and James Carroll Beckwith, , with Footnotes. #154
Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr. used a wide variety of printing processes, printing out some negatives in more than one medium. In his lectures, he pointed out that this approach to photography was important because in the hands of a photographer who “lives and understands the infinitely varied moods of nature, photography can be made to express…
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1 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Studio of Sir Peter Lely’s Portrait of Queen Catherine of Braganza, with Footnotes. #152
Catherine Of Braganza, (born Nov. 25, 1638, Vila Viçosa, Port.—died Dec. 31, 1705, Lisbon), Portuguese Roman Catholic wife of King Charles II of England (ruled 1660–85). A pawn in diplomatic dealings and anti-papal intrigues, she was married to Charles as part of an important alliance between England and Portugal.Catherine’s father became King John IV of…
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1 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Charles Jervas’ Lady Elizabeth Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater, with Footnotes. #151
Elizabeth Churchill was the third daughter and co-heiress of the great English general John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. She married Scroope Egerton 4th Earl of Bridgewater in February 1703. “Scroop held various high offices at Court in successive reigns; and ‘in consideration of his great merits’ was created in 1720 Duke of Bridgewater. He and…
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1 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Glenys Gibson Napaltjarri’s Women’s Ceremony, with Footnotes. #150
Glenys Gibson Napaltjarri was born in 1968 in the community of Papunya, roughly 240 km northwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Australia. Glenys is daughter to the highly acclaimed Australian artist Ningura Napurrula. Glenys developed her artistic style through watching and learning her ancestral stories, from her mothers, aunties, and grandmothers, which has inspired…
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1 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Judy Cassab’s The Pink Dressing Gown, with Footnotes. #148
Judy Cassab AO CBE (15 August 1920 – 3 November 2015), was a portraitist of immense insight and imagination. As well as painting social luminaries, royals, fellow artists, family and friends, she was also a prolific draughtswoman and an acclaimed landscape artist.Born Judit Kaszab in Vienna in 1920, Cassab started painting at the age of 12.…
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01 works PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Richard B. Godfrey’s The Hindu goddess Kali, with Footnotes. #145
Kali, also known as Kālikā or Shyāmā, is a Hindu goddess. Kali is one of the ten Mahavidyas, a list which combines Sakta and Buddhist goddesses. Kali’s earliest appearance is that of a destroyer of evil forces. She is the most powerful form of Shakti, and the goddess of one of the four subcategories of the…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Eric Fischl’s Self-Reflection, with Footnotes. #148
Eric Fischl is an American Neo-Expressionist painter and sculptor best known for his figurative paintings and ambiguous, sexually charged imagery. Among his most famous works is Bad Boy (1981), depicting a youth gazing at an older, naked woman splayed on a bed, basking in striping window light. “A precision of composition and figuration is what I’m…
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01 works PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Wonder Woman, with Footnotes. #145
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (30 November 1825–19 August 1905) was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body. During his life, he enjoyed significant popularity in France and the United States, was given numerous official honors, and received…
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30 works – Art and the Egyptian Woman over the decades
In the winter of 1869–1870, Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann traveled to Constantinople, Athens, Smyrna, Alexandria and Cairo. It was on this trip that she, as one of the first painters ever, got access to a harem in Constantinople. Anna Maria Elisabeth Lisinska Jerichau-Baumann (21 November 1819–11 July 1881) was a Polish-Danish painter. She was married to…
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02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Candy Darling, with Footnotes. #141
Candy Darling — 1944–1974 was born into an alcoholic household in Queens, N.Y. where she lived with her mother after her parents’ divorce. Darling, who was assigned male at birth, spent hours watching and studying old movies on TV. It was by impersonating her favorite actresses that she discovered herself. With milky white skin and large brown…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Pal Fried’s Two ballet dancers backstage, with Footnotes. #142
Pál Fried (16 June 1893 in Hungary – 6 March 1976 in New York City) was a Hungarian artist. His oil paintings were usually of dancers, nudes, and portraits, and his subjects were almost always women, although he also painted Paris, seascapes, and cowboys and landscapes of the American West. He signed his paintings, as is usual…
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12 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Zinaida Evgenievna Serebriakova, VIVIEN LEIGH, Empress Maria-Theresa, Rosina Ferrara, and Catherine de Médicis, Gabrielle d’Estrées, with Footnotes. #11
Zinaida Evgenievna Serebriakova, (1884–1967), was a Modernist Russian painter, and was one of the best known and most highly regarded of her time. She was the daughter of the sculptor Evgenii Lanceray and was said to have been raised in an environment that helped to foster a love of the arts. The Lanceray family was…
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