"Portrait of Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria - Marie Antoinette"

Martin van Meytens 1695–1770

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"Venus and Adonis"

Nicolas Mignard 1606-68 

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"Jane Clark"

John Smibert 1688-1751

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"Tranquillity"

John William Godward 1861-1922

 

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"Fisherwomen"

Winslow Homer 1836-1910

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"The Time of the Lilacs"

Sophie Anderson 1823-1903

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"Summer Morning"

Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny 1864-1947

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"Ariadne"

John William Waterhouse 1849-1917

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"Venus"

Henri-Pierre Picou 1824-95

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"Proserpine"

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-82

The Roman goddess Proserpine was the daughter of Ceres, goddess of agriculture, and Jupiter who was the god of sky and thunder

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"Portrait of Giovanna Baccelli"

Thomas Gainsborough 1727-88

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"Portrait of a Lady"

Frank Dicksee 1853-1928

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"The Year's At The Spring"

Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1836-1912

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"A Woman Peeling Apples"

Pieter de Hooch 1629-84

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"Portrait of a Young Woman"

Rogier van der Weyden 1399/1400-64

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"Venus and Love"

Lambert Sustris 1515-1591

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"Young Mother"

Mary Cassatt 1844-1926

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"Young Girl Reading a Book"

Eva D. Cowdery 1887-1905

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"Anne Loudoun, Lady Henderson of Fordell"

Angelica Kauffman 1741-1807

Now online - A GALLERY OF COUNTRY GIRLS

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"A Birth Chamber"

Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1836-99

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A GALLERY OF COUNTRY GIRLS

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"The Birth of Venus"
Sandro Botticelli 1445-1510

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"The Young Guitarist"

Abraham Leon Kroll 1884-1974

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"Queen Sophia of Sweden"

Anders Leonard Zorn 1860-1920

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"Repose"

Karl Albert Buehr 1866-1952

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Two Paintings by Francisco Goya 1746-1828 

"La Maja Desnuda" - the unclothed maja - was painted some time between 1797 and 1800. Goya later created a second painting of the same subject identically posed  "La Maja Vestida" - the clothed maja. The model may have been Maria the 13th Duchess of Alba or possibly Pepita Tudo, the young mistress of the prime minister, the Duke of Alcudia. 

The word "maja" describes a stereotypical traditional Spanish woman.

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"Flaming June"

Lord Frederick Leighton 1830-96

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"The Reader"

Jean-Honoré Fragonard 1732-1806

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"Miranda"

John William Waterhouse 1849-1917

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"Venus, Adonis, and Cupid"

Annibale Carraci 1560-1609

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"The First Steps"

Marguerite Gérard 1761-1837

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"Girl Chopping Onions"

Gerrit Dou 1613-75

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