Why have there been no great women artists?
Woman painter, House of the Surgeon, Pompeii, first century C.E.
Caravaggio, Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1598-99.
Artemesia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1612-1613.
Properzia de’Rossi, Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife, 1525.
Luis Melendez, Self-Portrait, 1746.
Michel-Ange Houasse, The Drawing Academy, c.1725.
Left: Cassandra Austen, 1804 Jane AustenRight: Cassandra Austen, c. 1810 Fanny Knight (niece)
Hand Coloring of Prints from 1812 Metiers
Richard Westhall, Queen Victoria, 1830.
Mary Ellen Best, Anthony and the Three Children, 1847.
Mary Ellen Best, Painting Room in Our House at York, 1838.
Left: Delacroix’s Studio 1852, Rue Notre Dame de LoretteRight: Best, Self-Portrait in makeshift studio
Left: Morisot, 1872 Cradle
Right: Moniteur de la Mode 1871 Preval Fashion plate
Cassatt, In the Theatre Box, 1878
Cassatt, In the Theatre Box, 1878
Cassatt, In the Theatre Box, 1878
Mary Cassatt, In the Theatre Box, 1878.
Julia Margaret Cameron, Portrait of Julia Prinsep Jackson (later Julia Jackson), 1867.
Kara Walker, After the Deluge, 2006.