17-18C Faithful European Women Tending Sheep as Good Mothers Should

1630 Duchesse de Monatusier as a Shepherdess, by Claude Duret

1630 Lady as a Shepherdess, by Claude Deruet 

1650s Two Ladies as Shepherdesses, by Gerard van Honthorst      

   

1660 Anne Crane Lady Belasyse as a Shepherdess       

 

     

1670 Girl as a Shepherdess, by Karel Skreta

 1740s-50s Lady as a Shepherdess by an unknown British artist

1760 Madame Boucher as a Shepherdess, from Studio of Boucher

1760s Elizabeth Cust, Mrs Yorke as a Shepherdess, by Francis Cotes

1763 Lady Anne Dawson as Diana, by Joshua Reynolds

1764 Anne Dashwood,Countess Galloway as a Shepherdess, by Joshua Reynolds

1765 Luise Henriette Wilhelmine von Anhalt-Dessau as Diana, by Charles van Loo

            1790 Caroline Anne Brudedenell as a Shepherdess by Mary Hoare  

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 by Girolamo Forabosco 1605-1679

Girolamo Forabosco (1605-1679) Lady with a Dog

Girolamo Forabosco (1605-1679) painted women in allegorical history settings, but most of these women were his contemporaries. They reflect his society with women with elaborate hair & elegant costumes.  He was active in Padua & Venice, where he was enrolled in the Fraglia dei Pittori between 1634 - 1639 & paid taxes from 1640 to 1644.

Girolamo Forabosco (1605-1679) Portrait of a Venetian 1659

Girolamo Forabosco (1605-1679) Portrait of a Courtesan

Girolamo Forabosco (1605-1679) Portrait of a Courtesan

Girolamo Forabosco (1605-1679) Portrait of a Woman

Girolamo Forabosco (1605-1679) Vanitas

Girolamo Forabosco (1605-1679) Venetian Wife

Girolamo Forabosco (1605-1679) Courtesan

Girolamo Forabosco (1605-1679) Courtesan

Girolamo Forabosco (1605-1679) Portrait of a Woman Half Length

Girolamo Forabosco (1605-1679) Ragazza Allo Specchio

Girolamo Forabosco (1605-1679) Portrait of a Lady

Girolamo Forabosco (1605-1679) Portrait of a Lady in a Grey Dress with Fur

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 Portray Times of Day - Jean Leblond 1605-1666

 Jean Leblond 1605-1666 The Times of the Day - Morning

 Jean Leblond 1605-1666 The Times of the Day - Midday

 Jean Leblond 1605-1666 The Times of the Day - Evening

Jean Leblond 1605-1666 The Times of the Day - Night

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 Princesses at the Spanish court Dressed like their Mothers by Velazquez 1599–1660

1653 Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (Spanish painter, 1599-1660) Infanta Margarita.

Diego Velázquez Recorded a nuanced, even anxious, royal view of childhood in his paintings in Spain of the princesses, children dressed as adultss

1654 Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (Spanish painter, 1599-1660) Infanta Margarita.

1656 Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (Spanish painter, 1599-1660) Infanta Margarita.

1659 Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (Spanish painter, 1599-1660) Infanta Margarita in a Blue Dress.

1650 Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez (Spanish painter, from 1599 to 1660) The Infanta Margarita (Perhaps finished by Mazo Detail

1656 Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (Spanish painter, 1599-1660) Las Meninas or The Maids of Honor. Detail In Las Meninas, the 5-year-old Infanta Margarita Teresa stands looking at us, Accompanied by her ladies in waiting (meninas) & amp; 2 dwarves, while works were Velázquez portrait of her parents, the King & amp; queen. The Infanta looks out of the painting at her relatives (who are standing where the spectator of the painting stands) she is performing. And she is under pressure to look & amp; act like an adult princess. She will never be a child.

Velazquez, a precocious artistic genius, got his start painting tavern scenes his native town of Seville. At age of 24, Philip IV appointed Diego as Spain's court painter, a position he held for the rest his life.

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 Food Vendors on the Streets of London

1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Cheese and Cream

If you were about to sail across the Atlantic for the British American colonies from 1640 London, these are a few street vendors you may have encountered on the way to the wharf.  Diarist Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) was interested in the street vendors depicted in a variety of Cries of London images.  He collected these prints which still exist in his library, some 3,000 volumes, preserved at Cambridge. These images are believed to date from aroung 1640.  Pepys described them as “A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use.”

 1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Artichokes

1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Flounders

1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Hot Codlinges

1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Kitchen Stuff

1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Mackerel

1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Mussels

1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Onions

1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Oranges and Lemons

1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Radishes and Lettuce

1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Smelts

1640 Samuel Pepys A later Sett, in Wood – with the Words also then in use. Oysters

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.