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.

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

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.

16=17C Ladies with Fans - Indoors & Outdoors - Attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts 1561-1635

Marcus Gheeraerts the younger (Flemish artist, 1561-1635) Queen Elizabeth I

Marcus Gheeraerts the younger (Flemish artist, 1561-1635) Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I

Marcus Gheeraerts the younger (Flemish artist, 1561-1635) Lady in Black

Marcus Gheeraerts the younger (Flemish artist, 1561-1635) Mary Rogers, Lady Harington 1592

Marcus Gheeraerts the younger, Unknown Lady aged 31 1609

Marcus Gheeraerts the younger, Probably Mary Hungate c 1620

Marcus Gheeraerts the younger (Flemish artist, 1561-1635) Margaret Gerard (1569-1603) Lady Legh c 1590-1600

 Marcus Gheeraerts the younger (Flemish artist, 1561-1635) Lady 1619

Marcus Gheeraerts the younger (Flemish artist, 1561-1635) Queen Anne

Marcus Gheeraerts the younger (Flemish artist, 1561-1635) Susanna Temple by Marcus Gheeraerts, 1620s

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 -17C Female Fortune Tellers

Lucas Van Leiden (Dutch painter, 1494-1533) The Fortune Teller

Bartolomeo Manfredi (1582–1622) The Gypsy Fortune Teller 1616

 Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian painter, 1573-1610) Fortune teller

 Jacob Van Velsen (Dutch artist, 1597-1656) The Fortune Teller

 Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian painter, 1573-1610) Fortune teller II

Jean Valentin de Boulogne (French artist, 1591-1632) Fortune Teller Detail

1621 Nicolas Régnier (Flemish painter, 1591–1667), Cardsharps and Fortune Teller

1621 Nicolas Régnier (Flemish painter, 1591–1667), The Guessing Game with Fortune Teller

1626 Nicolas Régnier (Flemish painter, 1591–1667) The Fortune Teller

Jean Valentin de Boulogne (French artist, 1591-1632) Cheerful Company with Fortune Teller Detail

Bonheur Rosa or Georges De La Tour (French artist, 1593-1652) The Fortune Teller

Georges De La Tour (French artist, 1593-1652) Fortune Teller 1632-35

 Jan Cossiers (Flemish painter, 1600-1671) Fortune Telling

Antone Pesne (French artist, 1683-1757) Fortune Teller

 Jean Antoine Watteau (French artist, 1684-1721) The Fortune Teller

Bartolomeo Manfredi (1582–1622) The Gypsy Fortune Teller 1616

Simon Vouet (French artist, 1590-1649) The Fortune Tellers

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.