"Lady Lilith"

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-82

From Wikipedia.com - Lilith is described in Judaic literature as the first wife of Adam. She is associated with the seduction of men and the murder of children. The depiction of women as powerful and evil temptresses was prevalent in 19th-century painting, particularly among the Pre-Raphaelites. The artist depicts Lilith as an iconic, Amazon-like female with long, flowing hair. Her languid nature is reiterated in the inclusion of the poppy in the lower right corner—the flower of opium-induced slumber.

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"Dolce Far Niente" also known as "Sweet Nothings"

John William Godward 1861-1922

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"Princess Victoria and Dash"

George Hayter 1792-1871

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"Portrait of a Young Woman Drawing"

 (thought to be a self-portrait)

Marie-Denise Villers 1774-1821  

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"Felicita Sartori in Turkish Costume"

Rosalba Carriera 1675-1757

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"Venus Anadyomene"

Titian (Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio)  1488/90-1576

 

The title of the painting means Venus rising from the sea. The goddess is depicted wringing her hair, either after bathing or after her birth. She is said to have been born from a shell and  a symbolic shell is shown at bottom left.

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"Plucking the Fowl"

William Henry Hunt 1790-1864

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"Self-Portrait with her daughter Julie"

Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun 1755-1842

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"Take the Fair Face of Woman, and Gently Suspending, With Butterflies, Flowers, and Jewels Attending, Thus Your Fairy is Made of Most Beautiful Things"

Sophie Anderson 1823-1903

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"Portrait of Maria Walpole"

Francis Cotes 1726-70

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"Pensive"

Abbott Handerson Thayer 1849-1921

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"Venus and the Mirror"

Titian (Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio)  1488/90-1576

 

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"Girl Reading"

Charles Courtney Curran 1861-1942

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"The Misses Vickers" (1884)

John Singer Sargent 1856-1925

The Vickers family lived in Bolsover Hill, Sheffield.

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"Women Washing"

Eero Järnefelt 1863-1937

The artist was a Finnish realist painter.

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"The Roman Widow"

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-82

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"The Rokeby Venus"

Diego Velázquez 1599–1660 

Velázquez was the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age. The painting, also known as The Toilet of Venus, Venus at her Mirror and Venus and Cupid depicts the goddess lying on a bed and looking into a mirror held by the Roman god of physical love, her son Cupid.

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"Flabellifera"

John William Godward 1861-1922

When I posted the painting on Thursday 11th April, I added a note saying that I hadn't been able to discover the reason for that title. One of my daughers has come to the rescue; the Latin word flabellum means fan and of course the girl in the painting is carrying a fan.

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"Algerian Girl"

Frederick Arthur Bridgman 1847-1928

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"Queen Victoria and her Family"

Franz Xaver Winterhalter 1805-73

With Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are their children (left to right) Alfred (Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha); Prince Edward (later King Edward VII); Princess Alice; Princess Helena; Princess Victoria (The Princess Royal)

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"Flabellifera"

John William Godward 1861-1922

The title of the painting comes from the Latin word flabellum meaning a fan.

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"Young Woman Sewing"

Gari Melchers 1860-1932

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"The Yellow Sands"

John Reinhard Weguelin 1849-1927 

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"The Spinner"

William-Adolphe Bouguereau 1825-1905

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"Interior with Wife Mending Socks and Husband Sleeping"

Wybrand Hendrix 1744-1831

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This is a late 19th Century German painting about which nothing is known.

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"Sunset Musings"

George Cochran Lambdin 1830-96

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"War"

Anna Lea Merritt 1844-1930

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"Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1"

also known as "Portrait of the Artist's Mother"

James McNeill Whistler 1834-1903

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"The Venus of Urbino"

Titian (Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio)  1488/90-1576

The figure's pose is based on Giorgione's Sleeping Venus (See The Eternal Venus Thursday March 21st) which Titian completed. In this depiction, Titian has domesticated Venus by moving her to an indoor setting in the sumptuous surroundings of a Renaissance palace. Devoid as it is of any classical or allegorical trappings, Venus displays none of the attributes of the goddess she is supposed to represent.  

(This information comes from wikipedia.com)

 

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"The Women of Amphissa"

Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1836-1912

In Greek mythology the maenads were female followers of Dionysus (Bacchus in the Roman pantheon), The painting depicts the occasion when they had lost their way and had arrived in Amphissa, a city near Delphi. There they sank down exhausted in the market place and were overpowered by a deep sleep. The women of Amphissa formed a protective ring around them and when they awoke arranged for them to return home unmolested.

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