Women Across the Globe & the Centuries

Friday, September 15, 2023

17C Women on Horseback

1617 Paul van Somer (Flemish artist, 1576-1622) Queen Anne of Denmark. (Happy to see the brick-walled garden in the background.)

1620 Marie de Medici on Horseback, Unknown artist of the French School. (The garden here has a row of trees directing the viewer's site from the built environment to the natural landscape beyond.)

1630s Claude Deruet (French artist, 1588-1660) Madame Saint-Baslemont. Madame de Saint-Baslemont de Neuville Became a female warrior, as she actively defended her manor in 1634. During the Thirty Year War. This commemorative portrait was painted in 1638-1640 showing the determined woman wearing the white scarf of the commanding officers of the French crown. (There are even rectangular garden beds in the background.)

1634 Diego Velazquez (Spanish artist, 1599-1660) Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain. (Pleased to get a look at a few garden parterres & amp; a tiered fountain here.)

1635 Diego Velazquez (Spanish artist, 1599-1660) Elisabeth of France, Queen of Spain

1648 Jean de Saint-Igny (French artist, c 1600-1649). Anne of Austria, Queen of France

Joseph Parrocel 1670s (1646-1704) Madame La Duchesse de la Ferte

Casimira 1670s Mary, Queen of Poland

1670s Pierre Mignard (French artist, 1612-1695) Françoise Angélique de La Mothe Houdancourt, Madame la Duchesse d'Aumont. (Particularly fond of the garden with a depiction fairly complicated fountain component.)

1675 Joseph Parrocel (1646-1704) Madame La Comtesse de Saint Geran ago by Pierre Mignard (French artist, 1612-1695)

1679 Francisco Rizi (Spanish artist, 1608-1685) Marie Louise of Orleans, Queen of Spain

1680 Jean-Baptiste Martin, known as Martin des Batailles (French artist, 1659-1735) Olympe Mancini, Comtesse de Soissons

Joseph Parrocel 1680s (1646-1704) Portrait of the Duchess Louise of Portsmout on horseback

1693 Luca Giordano (Italian artist, 1634-1705) Maria Anna of Neuburg, Queen of Spain

Thursday, September 14, 2023

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.

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

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.

Monday, September 11, 2023

16 - 17C Women & Birdcages & lots of Celebrating

1510 possibly Cornelis Massijs (c1511–c 1557) The Bellows Repairer beneath a Birdcage

1540 Jan van Hemessen (1500-1599) Merry Company beneath a swinging Birdcage

1560 Pieter Aertsen (1508-1575) Peasants by the Hearth near a Birdcage

1600s Cornelis Dusart (1660-1704) Tavern Scene with birdcage above

1600s Pieter de Hooch (1629-1684) Interior Child Feeding a Parrot

1660 Gerard Dou (1613-1675) Old Woman Watering Flowers

1660 Jan Steen (Dutch artist, 1626-1679) Merry Couplewith birdcage nearby

1663 Jan Steen (Dutch artist, 1626-1679) The Dancing Couple with birdcage above

1664 Caspar Netscher (1635-1684) Lady with a Parrot, Monkey, and Man

1665 Jan Steen (Dutch artist, 1626-1679) The way you hear it is the way you sing it

1666 Caspar Netscher (1635-1684) Lady at the Window with bird out of cage

1687 Willem van Mieris (Dutch artist, 1662-1747) The Escaped Bird

1694 Jan Anthonie Coxcie (c 1660-1720) A Family with birfcage on floor

Sunday, September 10, 2023

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.

Saturday, September 9, 2023

1600s Women Holding Fans - Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) & Abraham Bosse (1602/04–1676)

Abraham Bosse (French, 1602-04–1676) Woman Holding a Fan 1629

Wenceslaus Hollar (European-born English artist, 1607-1677) Lady with fan and mirror

Wenceslaus Hollar (European-born English artist, 1607-1677) Lady with fan

Wenceslaus Hollar (European-born English artist, 1607-1677) Lady with feather fan.

Wenceslaus Hollar (European-born English artist, 1607-1677) Lady with veil and feather fan

Friday, September 8, 2023

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.