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Classical Female Figures

Richly dressed female figures representing themes like vanity, wisdom, and devotion, depicted in classical engravings with intricate details.

Sculpture of Minerva, Anonymous, 1584 Caption in Latin. Print is part of an album. print maker: Italypublisher: Rome paper engraving Caption in Latin. Print is part of an album. print maker: Italypublisher: Rome paper engraving
Sculpture of Minerva, Anonymous, 1584 Caption in Latin. Print is part of an album. print maker: Italypublisher: Rome paper engraving Caption in Latin. Print is part of an album. print maker: Italypublisher: Rome paper engraving
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Girl with bird cage, Francesco Bartolozzi, After Angelica Kauffmann, 1781 print A girl with a bird cage in her right hand. London paper etching bird in a cageSalon of 1855. The Young Falconer, painting by Couture, France. engraving 1855Power, Heinrich Aldegrever, 1528 print Female personification of Fortitudo, halfway. She is dressed in a purple dress, which bare one of her breasts. She includes a broken column, in her other hand the ornament of the column. paper. engraving Fortitude, 'Fortitudo' ~ one of the Four Cardinal VirtuesShepherd Girl of the Alps Philippe Trière French. Shepherd Girl of the Alps 394668Girl with Candle, Print made by Richard Purcell, active 1746-1766, Irish, after Henry Robert Morland, 1730-1797, British, undated, Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige, laid paper, Sheet: 14 × 10 inches (35.6 × 25.4 cm) and Image: 12 1/4 × 9 15/16 inches (31.1 × 25.2 cm)Amsterdam, Visscher, Claes Jansz. (II), Roghman, Geertruydt, Domestic chores, Woman working with needles, verso - stamped, A young woman sits in a room at a table on which are some books, and is busy folding a collar or a cap. She is dressed in the bourgeois fashion of around 1640 and wears a cap on her head. A clock hangs on the wall. On the floor, behind her chair, lies a skull on a roll of paper. The print is part of a series of five prints with domestic chores., print, prints, height 213 mm, width 171 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1625-10-19 - 1657, print maker, printmaker, 1648 - 1650, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Publication (Event), Publication, 1586 - 1652-06-19, publisher. .The Virgin Annunciate mid-18th century Probably woven under the direction of Pietro Ferloni This small fragment has been cut down from a larger tapestry, probably representing the Annunciation. It is attributed to weavers working in Rome at the San Michele manufactory, which had been founded in 1710 by Pope Clement XI to complement the wool and dyeing workshops at the orphanage of San Michele a Ripa. The tapestry is part of a large group of technically proficient tapestries, many made as diplomatic gifts, modelled after paintings in the Vatican collection. With the exception of a handful of more sophisticated tapestry series (like Gerusalemme Liberata, four pieces of which are also in The Mets collection), these woven copies comprised the main activity of the San Michele weavers, alongside repair and restoration of older northern European tapestries in the papal collection.. The Virgin Annunciate 212611Salvator Mundi, with a Globe and a Cross, Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian, active England, 1727-1815, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (called Guercino), Italian, 1591 - 1666, Engraving in brown ink on white paper, The young man sits at a table, with both hands about a globe surmounted by a cross to his left., Italy, ca. 1760-1770, Print, PrintEdward Francis Burney, 1760-1848, British, Venus and Cupid, undated. Pen and black ink, brown wash and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.Force (Ti)August, Print made by unknown artist, eighteenth century, Published by Robert Sayer, 1725-1794, British, 1767, Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 17 × 11 inches (43.2 × 27.9 cm), Plate: 14 × 10 inches (35.6 × 25.4 cm), and Image: 12 1/2 × 10 inches (31.8 × 25.4 cm)Persian Sibille, 1601 - 1627 print Bust of the Persian Sibille. In her right hand she holds an open book and she holds her left hand against her chest. Under the performance a six -line caption in Latin. Around a frame with flowers, including with Iris, Thousand beauty and akelei. Print is part of an album. paper engraving Persian sibyl. flowersForce (Ti)A young woman playing a harp, landscape in the background left, Harp playing young woman Mathilde , print maker: Johannes Philippus Lange, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Reinier Craeyvanger, (mentioned on object), 1838, paper, steel engraving, h 138 mm × w 101 mmA woman holds up the drapery she has wrapped around her body to show the series title to the viewer, Female figure in drapery Five senses represented by female figures (series title) Die Funf Sinne (series title on object), print maker: Ludwig Gottlieb Portman, Schiavonetti, Noord-Nederland, 1787 - 1828, paper, h 112 mm × w 76 mm. .Maria Theresia, Princess of Naples Sicily.Two Women At A Wall, Bernard Picart, After Jean-Baptiste Santerre, 1699 print There are two women in front of a wall. One of the women pushes the other off her hand. Paris paper engraving pushing somethingVolare Digital CaptureMusical Scene, 1625-55. Gerrit van Honthorst (Dutch, 1590-1656). Black ink wash over pen and brown ink and black chalk over graphite on gray-brown paper with white heightening, incised; sheet: 17.3 x 20.4 cm (6 13/16 x 8 1/16 in.). The Utrecht artist Gerrit van Honthorst was internationally known as a portrait painter, but he also gained a reputation as a painter of raucous musical scenes and parties. This drawing was once part of an album of compositional types that the artist showed to prospective patrons. Though the cheerful theme of a man and a woman sharing a song seems innocent, such unions often had amorous or lascivious connotations in 17th-century Holland.Italy, engraving of Allegory, Genius of Music crowning female pianistBoy with dog, Abraham Delfos, After Caspar Netscher, 1741 - 1820 drawing paper. chalk. watercolor (paint) brushTHE LOVE OF FREEDOM The love of freedom . Anonymous print.Brothers, Giovanna.