Women in Veils 16-20C

 El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (Greek artist, 1541-1614) Holy Family (detail) 1595

Historically, veils were used to represent modesty & purity in religious ceremonies.  A veil often symbolised a separation. The separation might be: between two states of being (e.g. married & unmarried); between physical objects; between concepts.

 Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483–1520) La Donna Velata

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (Greek artist, 1541-1614) Female portrait

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velazquez (Spanish painter, 1599–1660) Young Lady, 1635

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velazquez (Spanish painter, 1599–1660) Lady with a Fan, 1640

Maurice Quentin de La Tour (French artist, 1704-1788) Madame Restout 1738

Friedrich von Amerling (Austrian Academic Painter, 1803-1887) Reading Girl 1834

 Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi (Russian artist, 1837-1887) Portrait S.I. Kramskoy, 1880

 William Etty (British artist, 1787-1849) Woman with a Head Veil c 1830-40 Detail

Norman Prescott-Davies (English artist, 1862-1915) - As time goes by, 1893

Carlos Sáenz de Tejada (Spanish painter, 1897-1958) Benvenuti Gonzalez del Campillo, 1920

George Wesley Bellows (American painter, 1882–1925) Portrait of Elizabeth Alexander Detail

 Mary Cassatt (American painter, 1844-1926)  Spanish Dancer

Konstantin Makovsky (Russian painter, 1839-1915) Artist's Wife

Elisabeth Sonrel (French artist, 1874-1953), Queen of Summer 1907

Pablo Picasso (Spanish artist, 1881-1973) Madame Canals, 1905

Alexej von Jawlensky (Russian expressionist painter, 1864-1941)  Spanish Woman with Mantilla, 1910

Sergey Solomko (Russian artist, 1855-1928) Russian Beauty

Klavdi Vasilievich Lebedev (Russian artist, 1852-1916) Charity