Lucy Paquette

Reading the News (c. 1874)

by James Tissot (French, 1836-1902)

Private collection

Woman reading (1875)

by Lucius Rossi, (Italian, 1846-1913)

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Interrupted Reading (c. 1870)

by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875)

The Art Institute of Chicago

Isabelle Frith, Reading (1845)

by William Powell Frith (British, 1819-1909)

The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, U.K.

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Woman with a Bracelet

by Alfred Stevens (Belgian, 1823-1906)

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Lady in a Lilac Dress with Flowers (1911)

by Władysław Czachórski (1850-1911)

The National Museum in Warsaw, Poland

Ilona Lotz in White (1880s)

by Károly Lotz (German-Hungarian, 1833-1904)

Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest

Lady in a white dress (1833)

by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian, 1793-1865)

Wien Museum Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria

Portrait of Auguste Strobl (1828)

by Joseph Karl Stieler (German, 1781-1858)

Private collection

Mary Ellis Bell (Mrs. Isaac Bell) c. 1827

John Vanderlyn (American, 1775-1852)

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Portrait of a noblewoman (1884)

by Karl Nagl (Austrian, active in Vienna 1840-1890)

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Portrait of Mrs János Matta (1860)

by Miklós Barabás (Hungarian, 1810-1898)

Déri Múzeum, Debrecen, Hungary

Portrait of a Young Lady in a White Dress (1826)

by Jozef Ginovský (Slovakian, 1800-1851)

Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava

Portrait by Gaslight (c. 1900)

by Albert Lynch (French, 1860-1950)

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

The lady in white (1878)

by Annie Louisa Swynnerton (British, 1844-1933)

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

The Golden Lady (1896)

by William Merritt Chase (American, 1849-1916)

Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York

Breezy day in Venice (1891-1899)

by Ettore Tito (Italian, 1859-1941)

@mfaboston.bsky.social

Bal Masqué (1880)

by Charles Hermans (Belgian, 1839-1924)

Private collection

The Pied Mannequin (1917)

by Henry Salem Hubbell (American, 1870-1949)

Godel & Co. Inc., Bedford, New York

Arrangement (1901)

by Alfred Henry Maurer (American, 1868-1932)

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Tender Words (1901)

by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905)

Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, Florida

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Portrait of Zofia Okuń, the artist’s wife (1904-1907)

by Edward Okuń (Polish, 1872-1945)

National Museum in Warsaw

Okuń married his cousin Zofia Tolkemit (1877-1960) in 1897 and painted numerous portraits of her; this one was produced in Rome.

Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, Gertrude (1917)

by Harold Harvey (British, 1874-1941)

Private collection

Gertrude Harvey (née Bodinnar, 1879-1966), a painters’ model, married Harvey in 1911 and became an artist in her own right.

The Artist's Wife

by Thomas W. Holgate (British, 1869-1954)

The Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, Cornwall, UK

Mrs. Ethel Cushing (c. 1912-1914)

by Howard Gardiner Cushing (American, 1869-1916)

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Portrait of the artist's wife (c. 1902)

by Rupert Bunny (Australian, 1864-1947)

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Bunny met art student Jeanne Heloise Morel in 1895, while painting in Paris. They married in 1902.

Portrait of Hilda Spencer Watson (c. 1902)

by George Spencer Watson (British, 1869-1934)

Private collection

Hilda Mary Gardiner, known as “Ginger,” was a classical violinist and a dancer. She and Spencer married in 1909.

Portrait of Gerda Bergh (1895)

by Richard Bergh (Swedish, 1858-1919)

National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norway

Gerda Ingeborg Winkrans (1864-1919) was Bergh's second wife; they married in 1890.

Madame Antoinette Desbrosses

by Jean Desbrosses (French, 1835-1906)

Musée d'Orsay @museeorsay.bsky.social

Mme Gervex Asleep

by Henri Gervex (French, 1852-1929)

Unlocated