Art by female artists

Drie meisjes uit het Amsterdamse Burgerweeshuis, één leest voor uit een boek terwijl een ander luistert en een ander bezig met verstelwerk is. Links een wasmand, rechts slaapt een kat op een bankje.

Fotoreproductie van tekening in 'The Reveley Collection of Drawings at Brynygwin', afb. 34.

Sensitivity, warmth and mutual tenderness permeate this family portrait depicting the artist’s father, Amilcare, brother, Astrubale, and sister, Minerva. The family relationship is weighted higher than the figurative and formal characteristics. The sponta…

Rachel Ruysch was the daughter of Frederik Ruysch, a professor of botany. Her artistic talent was recognized early on and she became a renowned painter of floral still lifes. Even though she bore ten children, she nevertheless managed to pursue a professi…

In this still-life, a table is laid with cheeses, pretzels and figs, alongside costly objects like a gilded Venetian glass and a Chinese dish. The Antwerp painter Clara Peeters was one of the first food still-life painters, and her ‘banketjes’ or banquet …

Hanna Pauli’s portrait of her artist friend Venny Soldan-Brofeldt, painted in their common studio in Montparnasse in Paris 1886–1887, has in recent decades become a classic of Swedish art history. Pauli has depicted the model sitting on the floor leaning …

overall: Signed and dated bottom left with brown: MARGARETA STERIAN 1934.

Draftsman: Schurman, Anna Maria van Stecher: Schurman, Anna Maria van

From about 1900 Macdonald began to produce larger, independent watercolours alongside her craftwork. Here, a figure is seemingly asleep and may be dreaming, while above her stands a row of eight heads or masks which are perhaps part of her dream. The subj…

Berthe Morisot took part in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874, and since then belonged to the core of the group. Contemporary reviewers described her paintings as the very essence of Impressionism. Many critics regarded the group’s style to be ex…

Wegmann grew up in Denmark and trained as an artist in Munich, where she became friends with the Swedish painter Jeanna Bauck (1840–1926). They both moved to Paris in 1881, the year that this informal portrait of Bauck, sitting on a table with a book in h…

Portret van Christoffel Bernhard Julius von Schwartz (1676-1754), heer van Ansen en Glinthuis. Buste, naar rechts. Onderdeel van de collectie portretminiaturen.

Portret van een vrouw, Alexandrine Patchenko, de schoonzuster van de schilderes, zittend op een sofa met een boek in de rechterhand.

De vrolijke drinker. Een lachende man houdt een kruik met deksel omhoog. Met een gepluimde baret op het hoofd, zittend aan een tafel waarop een vuurtestje, pijp en tabak liggen.

The Self-portrait on the 6th Wedding Day, created in Paris, is an example of Paula Modersohn-Becker's modernity: simple form accompanied by reduced color. With paintings like this she manages the implementation of the "great simplicity of form&qu…

In the 1860s, Jeanna Bauck moved to Munich to study and work. Among her pursuits, she ran a school of painting for women. Here, she has portrayed her friend and colleague Bertha Wegmann at her easel. The studio, which has a window that provides natural si…

Variation: Representing the sculptor Rodin, with almost caricature features, the work is of great value, both in terms of plasticity and uniqueness (the work of the artist is unknown). Title and signature on the plinth, to the left of the character, throu…