48 works · Open access
Painters who built careers when academies, guilds and salons were closed or half-open to them: portraits, still lifes and scenes made before 1900.
48 works
The Pink Dress (Albertie-Marguerite Carré, later Madame Ferdinand-Henri Himmes, 1854–1935)
Berthe Morisot · ca. 1870
Judith Slaying Holofernes
Artemisia Gentileschi · 1613-01-01
Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848)
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1789
The Sorrow of Telemachus
Angelica Kauffmann · 1783
The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55
Portrait of a Prelate
Lavinia Fontana · ca. 1580
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · 1785
Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750)
Rachel Ruysch · 1692
A Bouquet of Flowers
Clara Peeters · ca. 1612
Beauty Revealed
Sarah Goodridge · 1828-01-01
Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859)
Marie-Guillemine Benoist · 1802
Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868)
Marie-Denise Villers · 1801
Vase of Flowers and Conch Shell
Anne Vallayer-Coster · 1780
Portrætskitse. Formodentlig kunstnerens søn Thorald Jerichau
Elisabeth Baumann · 1858-1861
Conversation Piece
Lilly Martin Spencer · ca. 1851–52
Self-Portrait with a Harp
Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux · 1791
Flowers in a Grotesque Vase
Orsola Maddalena Caccia · ca. 1635
Allegory of Smell
Marie-Thérèse Reboul · 1775–81
The Interior of a Woman Painter's Studio
Marie-Victoire Lemoine · 1789
A Vase of Flowers
Margaretha Haverman · 1716
Ducks in the Woods
Julie Hart Beers · 1875
Still Life
Fidelia Bridges · 1870
On the Hudson River, Near Idlewild
Eliza Pratt Greatorex · 1864
Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches, and Grapes
Charlotte Eustace Sophie de Fuligny-Damas · 1780
Paint box with nude study
Helena de Kay Gilder · ca. 1871
Untitled (Squirrels in a Chestnut Tree)
Susan Waters · ca. 1875–80
Egyptian Revival Triptych
Sarah Anne Freeman Clarke · 1874 or after
Miss Emeline Parker of Lowell, Massachusetts
Ruth Whittier Shute · 1832
Ingres (1780–1867) as a Young Man
Laurence-Augustine Jubé Héquet (Madame Héquet) · ca. 1850–60
Reading
Berthe Morisot · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Susanna and the Elders
Artemisia Gentileschi · 1610-01-01
Julie Le Brun (1780–1819) Looking in a Mirror
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1787
Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso
Angelica Kauffmann · 1782
Weaning the Calves
Rosa Bonheur · 1879
Madame Elisabeth de France (1764–1794)
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · ca. 1787
Gilbert Stuart
Sarah Goodridge · ca. 1825
Basket of Plums
Anne Vallayer-Coster · The Cleveland Museum of Art
The Sculptor Jens Adolf Jerichau, the Artist's Husband
Elisabeth Baumann · 1846
Young Husband: First Marketing
Lilly Martin Spencer · 1854
Fruit and Flowers
Orsola Maddalena Caccia · ca. 1630
Sweet Melancholy
Joseph-Marie Vien · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Water Lilies
Helena de Kay Gilder · ca. 1870–77
Judith and Her Maidservant
Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815)
Edward Smith Stanley (1752–1834), Twelfth Earl of Derby, Elizabeth, Countess of Derby (Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, 1753–1797), and Their Son (Edward Smith Stanley, 1775–1851)
Angelica Kauffmann · ca. 1776
A Limier Briquet Hound
Rosa Bonheur · ca. 1856
L'Aspetta. She is waiting for him
Elisabeth Baumann · 1878
Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Orsola Maddalena Caccia · ca. 1645
