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Theresa Concordia Mengs painted this self-portrait with pastels, her preferred medium, when she was about twenty years old, a few years after her family moved from Dresden to Rome.
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Theresa Concordia Mengs
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Dresden, Holy Roman Empire (Dresden, Germany)
Date:
1745
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Portrait of a Girl with a Red Belt is one of many portrait miniatures that Jeremiah David Alexander Fiorino painted. He was a court painter in Dresden who painted portraits of members of the royal…
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Jeremiah David Alexander Fiorino
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Kassel, German Confederation (Kassel, Germany)
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ca. 1820s
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Fanny Hensel (1805–1847), the granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and financier Daniel Itzig, and sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, was born in Hamburg into a wealthy…
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Julius Helfft
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1849
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When Claude Cahun took this self-portrait photograph, she was still Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob and had not yet adopted her new gender-neutral name. She is wearing a pinafore, sitting quietly at a desk…
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Claude Cahun
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1915
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Song without Words, painted in Jaffa ca. 1911–1913. Like many of Jan’s works, this painting is suffused with poetic and atmospheric symbolism. Here, a beautiful young woman with haunted eyes holds a…
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1914
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There are numerous terra-cotta plaque figurines of females, some naked and others clothed, holding disks, mostly from northern Israel and Transjordan. Many come from border towns and towns whose…
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Hazor, Land of Israel (Tel Hazor, Israel)
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Iron Age II, 9th–8th Century BCE
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Born near Mumpf, Switzerland, Rachel (born Elisa-Rachel) Félix (1821–1858) was a prominent French actress. Her parents worked as peddlers, and, as a child, she performed music alongside her sister…
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Artist Unknown
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Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
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ca. 1848
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Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–1868) achieved celebrity first as an actress, later gaining some literary following for her poetry. Uncertainty surrounds Menken’s family history, as she claimed various…
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Napoleon Sarony
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1866
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This sketch for a costume was made for the role of Jitka in Dalibor, a Czech opera in three acts by Bedřich Smetana, first performed in 1868. The plot centers on the story of a Czech knight, Dalibor…
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Geskel Salomon
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Gothenburg, United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway (Göteborg, Sweden)
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19th Century
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Henriette de Lemos Herz (1764–1847) was a Berlin salon hostess famed for her beauty and literary engagement. She was highly educated, especially in ancient and modern languages. Following her marriage…
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Anna Dorothea Lisiewska-Therbusch
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1778