16C The Holy Family Attributed to Angnolo Bronzino,

Attributed to Angnolo Bronzino, Agnolo di Cosimo, (Italian Mannerist artist, 1503-1572) Holy Family 1555-60

Attributed to Angnolo Bronzino, Agnolo di Cosimo, (Italian Mannerist artist, 1503-1572) Holy Family 1540

Attributed to Angnolo Bronzino, Agnolo di Cosimo, (Italian Mannerist artist, 1503-1572) Holy Family 1534-40

18C Women Around the World

Costumes de Differents Pays, by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810) c 1797 Hand-Colored Engraving from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

By the end of the 18C, worldwide exploration & colonization by Europeans were fairly commonplace, enabling the late 18C & 19C public to catch a glimpse of the clothing & customs of other peoples.

17C Women with Roses!

 1654 Countess Beata Elisabeth von Königsmarck attributed to Hendrick Munnichhoven. Hendrick Munnichhoven (even Hendrik Munnikhoven, and Münnichhoven), probably was born in Stockholm. The Swedish artist died in August 1664 in Stockholm.

Portrait of Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie with his wife Maria Euphrosyne attributed to Hendrick Munnichoven, 1653. (He is so bejeweled & befeathered.)

18C Women Around the World

Costumes de Differents Pays, by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810) c 1797 Hand-Colored Engraving from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

By the end of the 18C, worldwide exploration & colonization by Europeans were fairly commonplace, enabling the late 18C & 19C public to catch a glimpse of the clothing & customs of other peoples.

17C Women Indoors by Gerard Terborch (Dutch, 1617-1681)

 

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1617-1681) Lady at her Toilette with attending dog...

Gerard Terborch (Ter Borch) (1617-1681) was a portrait painter, who also specialized in genre paintings which represented bourgeois figures engaged in various domestic tasks or elegantly dressed figures set within luxurious interiors. (Speaking of elegant, his self portrait is priceless!) Terborch's work inspired such artists as Pieter de Hooch, Gabriël Metsu, & Caspar Netscher (1639-1684), his leading pupil.

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1617-1681) Man Offering a Woman Coins

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1617-1681) Margaretha van Haexbergen, Wife of Jan van Duren

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1617-1681) Mother Combing the Hair of Her Child

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1617-1681) Paternal Admonition with attending dog..

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1617-1681) Reading Lesson

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1617-1681) The Visit

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1617-1681) Woman at a Mirror

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1617-1681) Woman Drinking Wine

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1617-1681) Woman Washing Hands with attending dog...

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1617-1681) Young Woman at Her Toilet with a Maid

18C Women Around the World

Costumes de Differents Pays, by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810) c 1797 Hand-Colored Engraving from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

By the end of the 18C, worldwide exploration & colonization by Europeans were fairly commonplace, enabling the late 18C & 19C public to catch a glimpse of the clothing & customs of other peoples.

17C Women & Music + a few dogs by Dutch artist Gerard Terborch 1617-1681

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1617-1681) The Concert

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1617-1681) The Dancing Couple

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1617-1681) The Duet - Singer and Theorbo Player with attending dog...

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1617-1681) The Suitor's Visit with attending dog...

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era painter, 1617-1681) A Concert 1675

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era painter, 1617-1681) Lute 1658

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era painter, 1617-1681) Music Lesson 1668-9

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era painter, 1617-1681) Woman with Music Manuscript'

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era painter, 1617-1681) The Concert 1655

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era painter, 1617-1681) The Music Lesson with attending dog... 1668

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era painter, 1617-1681) Woman at the Virginal with attending dog...

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era painter, 1617-1681) Woman Making Music

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era painter, 1617-1681) Woman Playing a Theorbo for Two Men with attending dog...

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era painter, 1617-1681) Woman Playing the Theorbo Lute and a Cavalier c 1658

18C Women Around the World

Costumes de Differents Pays, by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810) c 1797 Hand-Colored Engraving from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

By the end of the 18C, worldwide exploration & colonization by Europeans were fairly commonplace, enabling the late 18C & 19C public to catch a glimpse of the clothing & customs of other peoples.

17C Sisters & Sisterhood

English School The Egerton Sisters, Elizabeth, Vere & Mary Egerton, c. 1601-1602, daughters of Thomas Egerton (d. 1599), elder son of Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley & Lord Chancello

1637 Lady Elizabeth Thimbelby & her sister, Viscountess Endover by Anthony van Dyke (1599-1641) 

1637 Philadelphia & Elizabeth Wharton by Anthony van Dyke (1599-1641) 

18C Women Around the World

Costumes de Differents Pays, by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810) c 1797 Hand-Colored Engraving from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

By the end of the 18C, worldwide exploration & colonization by Europeans were fairly commonplace, enabling the late 18C & 19C public to catch a glimpse of the clothing & customs of other peoples.

17C Women in Turbans

 1615 Robert Peake the Elder (c. 1551–1619) Lady Elizabeth Pope, wearing a draped mantle and matching turban. 

One of my favorite early turbans in the Turquerie style which was the Orientalist fashion in Western Europe from the 16C to 18C for imitating aspects of Ottoman art and culture. It is Robert Peake's dark turban of 1615 seen above.  Turbans regained popularity in the early 19C, when the style of fashion was called Orientalism.  

Francesco del Cairo (Italian painter, 1598-1674)  Girl with a Large Turban (A Sybil)