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As for the painting's subject, the auction house's report noted that multiple portraits of unidentified Creole women wearing a tignon have been labeled as portraits of Marie Laveau. [ 3 ] [ 6 ] For example, François Fleischbein 's Portrait of a Free Woman of Color ( c. 1837 ) and Adolph Rinck 's Free Woman of Color, New Orleans (1844) have ...
Woman at her Toilette is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Berthe Morisot, executed between 1875 and 1880. It was first exhibited at the fifth Impressionist exhibition in 1880 and is now in the Art Institute of Chicago . [ 1 ]
The Blue Room (La chambre bleue) is a 1923 painting by French artist Suzanne Valadon. One of her most recognizable works, it has been called a radical subversion of representation of women in art. [1] Like many of Valadon's later works, it uses strong colors and emphasizes decorative backgrounds and patterned materials. [2]
Three Women with Parasols (French: Trois femmes aux ombrelles), also known as The Three Graces, is an 1880 oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Marie Bracquemond. The painting depicts three women wearing the then fashionable style of ruffled dresses with high bodices. [1] The woman in the middle holds a fan in the popular style of Japonisme ...
Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter) (Woman wearing a beret and checkered dress) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, which he created in 1937. It is a portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter , Picasso's lover and muse during this period and was created with elements of Cubism .
Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge (or Lydia in a Loge) is an 1879 painting by American artist Mary Cassatt. The Philadelphia Museum of Art acquired the painting in 1978 from the bequest of Charlotte Dorrance Wright. [1] The style in which it was painted and the depiction of shifting light and color was influenced by Impressionism. [1]
Two Venetian Ladies is an oil on panel painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Vittore Carpaccio. The painting, believed to be a quarter of the original work, was executed around 1490 and shows two unknown Venetian ladies. The top portion of the panel, called Hunting on the Lagoon is in the Getty Museum, and another matching panel is missing.
Pablo Picasso first encountered the painting at an exhibition in Paris, in 1921. Over the next decade, he repeatedly referenced Ingres in his art, particularly in his homage in the painting Woman with a Book. The model for Woman with a Book, Picasso's then young mistress, Marie-Thérèse Walter, mimics Madame Moitessier’s pose. The painting ...