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 French Women & Music in Unexpected Places by Le Nain brothers

By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).  Children singing with the violin

 Musicians attributed to  one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c 1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c 1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).

By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).  After Haymaking  Flute music...

By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).  Old Flute Player

By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).  Peasants in Landscape  Flute music.

By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).  Peasant Family at Home  Flute music

By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).  The Flageolet Player

By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).  Preparing for Dance School (not exactly peasants)

By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677). Landscape with Peasants  Flute music.

By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).  Resting Man wih horse  Flute music.

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 Men, Women, & Dogs Comfortable Indoors - Gabriel Metsu 1629-1667

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) Young Woman Composing Music with attending dog...

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) The Cittern Player with attending dog...

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) A Musical Party

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) Virginal

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) A Woman Seated at a Table with Cello & Man Tuning a Violin (with dog) c 1665 with attending dog...

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era painter, 1629-1667) Music Lesson

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) Breakfast 1660 with attending dog...

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) Lady Seated in a Window but Still Indoors

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) Portrait of the Artist with His Wife Isabella de Wolff in a Tavern

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) Soldier Paying a Visit to a Young Lady with attending dog...

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) Tavern Scene

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) The Feast of the Bean King (a Twelfth Night tradition)

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) The Hunter and a Woman with attending dog...

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) The Hunter's Gift with attending dog...

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) The Prodigal Son

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) The Sick Child

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) The Sick Girl

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) The Sleeping Sportsman with attending dog...

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) The Tippler (The Wine Drinker)

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) The Visit to the Nursery with attending dog..

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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) Visit of the Physician with attending dog...

Gabriël Metsu (1629-1667) was trained as a painter in his native Leiden but spent the last part of his career in Amsterdam. Most of his output consists of genre paintings which reproduce in a direct & simple way the life of the Dutch middle classes in the 17C. Because Metsu included details of rooms and landscapes in his paintings, most of these works are details.

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 Families Head Outside for Portraits

The Renaissance, from the 14-17C, marked a turning point in portraiture. Renaissance artists began to paint secular scenes, breaking away from the dominant religious art of medieval painters. Partly out of interest in the natural world & partly out of nostalgia for classical Greece & Rome, portraits became valued as symbolic & allegorical objects & as depictions of earthly success & status. The period in Europe was the cultural bridge between the Middle Ages & more modern history. 

The relationship between man & nature was evolving as Francis Bacon (1561-1626) promoted man as "the minister & interpreter of nature." Portraits began to depict the wealthy & the middle class in natural landscapes & in more formal garden settings, where man was obviously controlling the nature around him.  As time passed, the Renaissance garden became as much as symbol of the owner's wealth & culture as his house, his clothes, or his art collection.

c 1627 Family portrait by Cornelis de Vos (Flemish, 1584-1651) 

This portrait's background shows a workman outlining the upcoming formal flower beds in an established garden.1630s  Cornelis de Vos (Flemish painter, c 1584-1651) Family Portrait Seated on a Garden Terrace.  Cornelis De Vos was most successful as a painter of individual & group portraits. After the departure of Antony van Dyck (1599-1641) for England in 1621, & Peter Paul Rubens' (1577-1640) absences from Antwerp on diplomatic & artistic missions, de Vos became the leading portraitist of the Antwerp haute-bourgeois & patrician society. He only commenced painting full-length portraits after Anthony van Dyck's return to Antwerp in 1627. In these portraits the figures are typically placed in front of architecture & an open landscape or garden.

 1620 Frans Hals (1623-1625) Family in a Landscape

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.

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