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2. Female Nude (Renoir, 1876) - Wikipedia

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   Female Nude is an 1876 painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, also known as Nude Woman Sitting on a Couch, Anna (after its model), After Bathing and Pearl.It is housed in the Pushkin Museum, in Moscow, and is an example of Renoir's many nude paintings, a recurring subject that preoccupied him throughout his life.

3. Portrait painting - Wikipedia

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   In his times, Pliny complained of the declining state of Roman portrait art, "The painting of portraits which used to transmit through the ages the accurate likenesses of people, has entirely gone out…Indolence has destroyed the arts." [22] [23] These full-face portraits from Roman Egypt are fortunate exceptions. They present a somewhat ...

4. Beauty Revealed - Wikipedia

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   Beauty Revealed Artist Sarah Goodridge Year 1828 Type watercolor on ivory Dimensions 6.7 cm × 8 cm (2.6 in × 3.1 in) Location Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, United States Accession 2006.235.74 Beauty Revealed is an 1828 self-portrait by the American artist Sarah Goodridge. Depicting only the artist's bared breasts surrounded by white cloth, the 6.7-by-8-centimetre (2.6 by 3.1 in ...

5. Female self-portrait in painting - Wikipedia

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   Schalcken's 1680 painting of a woman painting was attributed to Godfried Schalken before its restoration in the 20th century revealed the full signature, that of his sister Maria Schalcken. Often the daughters of painters, wives or sisters of painters, female artists have seen their work unrecognized or minimized - if not ridiculed or vilified ...

6. Portrait of Madame X - Wikipedia

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   This time, however, the portrait was well received by the public. In 1897 Gautreau posed yet again for a standing portrait, for what would be her favorite version, by Antonio de La Gándara. [5]: 20 In 1916, Sargent sold the painting to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, writing to its director "I suppose it is the best thing I have ever done."

7. La Belle Ferronnière - Wikipedia

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   Although the model of the painting La Belle Ferronnière is still shrouded in mystery, the landmark exhibition "Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan" (National Gallery, London, 9 Nov. 2011 – 5 Feb. 2012) listed the portrait as possibly depicting Beatrice d'Este, wife of Ludovico Sforza. [3]