Women Bathing Outdoors in 17C & 18C

 Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch artist, 1606-1669) A Woman Bathing in a Stream Detail

 Cornelis van Poelenburgh (Dutch artist, 1594-1667) Women Bathing in Landscape

 

 Johan van Haensbergen (Dutch artist, 1642-1705) A Classical Landscape with Women Bathing

 Jan Frans van Bloemen (Flemish artist, 1652-1749) A Classical Landscape with Ladies Bathing near a Fountain

Attr to Pieter van Bloemen (Flemish artist, 1657-1720) A Riverside Town with High Embankment Walls, Figures Bathing and Traders with their Horses on the Mudflats

 Nicolas Lancret (French artist, 1690-1743) Women Bathing

 Jean-Baptiste Pater (French artist, 1695–1736) Bathing Party in a Park 1730s

 Joseph Frans Nollekens (Flemish artist, 1706-1748) Park Scene with Ladies Bathing

 After Richard Wilson (British artist, 1713-14 - 1782) Lake Nemi with Figures Bathing

Georg Heinrich Hergenröder (German artist, 1736-1794) Ladies Bathing

 François Boucher (French painter, 1703–1770) Bathers in a Stream

William Taverner (English artist, 1703-1772) Women Bathing

Benjamin West (American-born British painter, 1738-1820) The Bathing Place at Ramsgate 1788 detail

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 attributed to Caspar Netscher c 1635-1684

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Lady Playing a Guitar 1669

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Maria Timmers'

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Margaretha Godin 1694

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Young Woman

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Venus with Cupid

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) van de familie van Citters

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Suzanna Huygens 1669

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Sara Nuyts Wife

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Portret van een vrouw

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Mother Combing Child's Hair 1669

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Portrait of a Lady

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Montespan in Gold Dress

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684)

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Maria Anna

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Lady Philippina Staunton 1668

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Lady 1683

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Helena Catharina de Witte (1661-95)

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Josina Parduyn (1642-1718)

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Elisabeth van Bebber 1643-1704 c 1670

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Dorothy, Lady Temple 1671

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Albertina Agnes 1675

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Catherina Raye (1641-1712)

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) 1669 Barbara Villers

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Girl Arranging Flowers

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 at Indoor Music Parties

 A Music Party (Circle of Pieter Cornelisz. van Slingeland) 1675

 A Musical Pary (after Caspar Netscher) after 1665

 Anthonie Palamedesz. (Dutch artist, 1601–1673) A Musical Party 1645-50 detail

 Gillis van Tilborgh (Flemish artist, c 1635–c 1678) Interior Music Party

 Jacob van Velsen (Dutch artist, c.1597–1656) A Music Party 1631

 Jan Olis (Dutch artist, c 1610–1676) A Music Party 1633

 Jan Steen (Dutch artist, 1625-26–1679) Musical Company 1661-64

  Peasants making music at an inn attributed to David Teniers II (Flemish artist, 1610-1690)

 Pieter de Hooch (Dutch artist, 1629–1684) A Music Party c 1675

  Pieter de Hooch (Dutch artist, 1629–1684) A Music Party in a Courtyard 1677

  Pieter Jacobsz. Codde (Dutch artist, 1599–1678) Dutch Cavaliers & their Ladies Making Music 1631

 The Music Party attributed to Pieter Jacobsz. Codde (Dutch artist, 1599–1678)

 Willem Cornelisz. Duyster (Dutch artist, c.1599–1635) A Musical Party 1634

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.

A Few 17C Older Women

1611 Guido Reni (1575–1642) An Old Woman

1611 Guido Reni (1575–1642) The Artist's Mother

1616 Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) Portrait of an Old Woman

 1620 Jacob Jordaens (Flemish artist, 1593-1678) Two heads of Nancy

Unknown artist, Portrait of a Lady perhaps Maria Pypelinckx

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.