Category: Portrate of a Lady
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06 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #18
JOHN SINGER SARGENT (FLORENCE, 1856 – 1925, LONDON) MADAME GAUTREAU DRINKING A TOAST, c. 1882-1883 Oil on panel 32 x 41 cm (12 5/8 x 16 1/8 in.) Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Madame Pierre Gautreau, born Virginie Avegno (1859–1915), was Madame X, the statuesque sitter in Sargent’s most notorious portrait (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New…
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05 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #17
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, (1606–1669) Portrait of a Young Woman (Magdalena van Loo?), 1665 Oil on canvas Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Titus van Rijn was born in Amsterdam on September 22, 1641, the fourth child of the famed artist Rembrandt van Rijn and his wife Saskia van Uylenburgh. In 1668, Titus married Magdalena van Loo…
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07 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #15
Ismail Gulgee, 1926 – 2007, PAKISTANI UNTITLED (DANCING WOMAN), c. 1967 Oil on canvas 120 by 90 cm.; 47 1/4 by 35 3/8 in. Private collection This large-scale work of a dancing woman is an excellent example of Ismail Gulgee’s early painterly style, highlighting the artist’s sensitive treatment of colour. The rendition of the jewellery…
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09 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #14
Youssef Nabil, B. 1972, EGYPTIAN PORTRAIT OF JANNANE AL ANI Hand-coloured gelatin silver print 38 by 25cm.; 15 by 9 7/8 in. Private collection Jananne Al-Ani was born in Kirkuk, Iraq in 1966. She studied Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art and graduated with an MA in Photography from the Royal College…
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15 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #13
Feuerbach, Anselm Friedrich, (b. 1829, Speyer, d.1880, Venezia) Miriam, c. 1862 Oil on canvas 102 x 81 cm Nationalgalerie, Berlin Feuerbach’s imposing Italian model, Anna Risi, the wife of a Roman shoemaker, is found in many of his paintings. Her severe beauty suggests both a dominatrix and a nanny. In Miriam, she poses as Moses’ sister,…
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12 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, including Madame Mottewith Footnotes. # 12
Willem Wissing, AMSTERDAM 1656 – 1687 BURGHLEY, LINCOLNSHIRE PORTRAIT OF A LADY, TRADITIONALLY IDENTIFIED AS MARY ‘MOLL’ DAVISLAP Oil on canvas 126.9 x 103 cm.; 50 x 40 1/2 in. Private Collection Mary “Moll” Davis (1648 – 1708) was a seventeenth-century entertainer and courtesan, singer, and actress who became one of the many mistresses of King…
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12 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #11
Zinaida Evgenievna Serebriakova, (1884-1967), Self portrait, c. 1921 Private collection 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…
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10 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #10
Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973 Madame Canals, Benedetta Bianco. Paris, 1905 Oil and charcoal on canvas. 90 x 70 cm Museu Picasso, Barcelona Once he had settled down definitively in Paris in 1904, Picasso got back in touch with several of his old friends from Barcelona. Without doubt, it was the ties to Ricard Canals…
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12 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. # 24
Pedro Sáenz y Sáenz Chrysanthemums/ Madame Butterfly, ca. 1900 Oil on canvas 81 x 55 cm Propiedad de la Excma. Diputación Provincial de Málaga Madame Butterfly: In 1904, a U.S. naval officer named Pinkerton rents a house on a hill in Nagasaki, Japan, for himself and his soon-to-be wife, “Butterfly”. Her real name is Ciocio-san. She is…
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13 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. # 23
Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) Portrait of Baroness Elisabeth Bachofen-Echt, c. 1914-1916 Oil on canvas 180 × 126 cm (70.9 × 49.6 in) Private collection Elisabeth Bachofen-Echt was the daughter of August and Serena Ledere (below), Klimt’s most important patrons. The family’s collection eventually grew to include some fifteen canvases by the artist, among them an 1899 portrait…
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10 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. # 21
Willem Wissing, 1656 – 1687 LADY ALICE BROWNLOW NÉE SHERARD (1659-1721), c. 1680 Oil on canvas 103 cm x 127 cm Private collection Alice Sherard was born in 1656 She was the daughter of Richard Sherard and Margaret Dewe.1,3 She married Sir John Brownlow in 1676, and they quickly inherited the Brownlow fortune and Belton…
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11 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. # 20
HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY, American (1873-1952) Portrait of a Lady, c. 1902 Oil on canvas 73 1/2 x 36 inches Private Collection Howard Chandler Christy (January 10, 1872 – March 3, 1952) was an American artist and illustrator, famous for the “Christy Girl” — a colorful and illustrious successor to the “Gibson Girl” — who became the…
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10 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. # 17
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) La bohémienne (Lise Tréhot), c. 1868 Oil on canvas Height: 85 cm (33.5 in). Width: 59 cm (23.2 in). Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery) in Berlin Lise Tréhot was Renoir’s companion from about 1866 to 1871. He painted her at least 23 times, including Lise with a parasol (below) , painted in 1867, Renoir’s first…
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10 Icons from the Bible, with footnotes, #14
Italian School, 15th Century A Crucifix Tempera on gold ground panel 93.1/8 x 71½ in. (236.5 x 181.7 cm.) Private collection French School, 1501 Christ on the cross between two angels bearing the arms of the kingdom of France Oil on board h: 233 w: 132 cm Private collection The Latin quotation inscribed at the…
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10 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. # 18
John Singer Sargent, (1856–1925) Portrait of Lady Agnew of Lochnaw (1865-1932), c. 1892 Oil on canvas 127 × 101 cm (50 × 39.8 in) Scottish National Gallery Lady Gertrude Agnew was born in 1865, the daughter of the Hon. Gowran Vernon and granddaughter of Robert Vernon, 1st Baron Lyveden. She married Sir Andrew Agnew, 9th…
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11 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! by The Old Masters, With Footnotes – # 45
Charles Le Brun, Paris, 1619 – 1690 Saint Mary the Egyptian, c. 1841/1842 Top: Church of the Holy Sepulchre Bottom: Saint Zosima buried her body with the assistance of a lion Oil on canvas Private collection Mary of Egypt (c. 344 – c. 421) also known as Maria Aegyptica, was born somewhere in Egypt, and at…
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11 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. # 16
Corneille de La Haye dit de Lyon and his workshop LA HAYE 1500/1510 – 1575 LYON PORTRAIT OF MADAME ANNE DE PISSELEU, DUCHESSE D’ETAMPES Oil on panel 17 x 14 cm; 6 3/4 by 5 1/2 in Private Collection Anne de Pisseleu d’Heilly, the duchesse d’Etampes. Anne was born in 1508 (making her fourteen years…
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