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Zodiacal man - Book of Hours (1416), by Limbourg Brothers

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Mariana (1851), by John Everett Millais

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Juliet on the Balcony (1875), by Thomas Francis Dicksee

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Evening by the Lake, by Max Nonnenbruch

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━ Eva Gonzales (1849–1883) ;

She was born in Paris to a novelist father and a musician mother who, in turn, supported their children’s creative abilities. At a young age, she studied under Charles Chaplin at his private studio for female artists, and later, in 1869, Edouard Manet took her on as model and then his only private student.

The must common themes were portraits and studies of landscape, domestics scenes, women and childrens. It is partially because of her ‘feminine’ themes that she is among the other impressionist artists of her time. By the mid-1870s, she began to experiment with other media besides oil painting and became quite skillful in the use of pastels.

But Gonzalès’ oeuvre stands out in that she did not seek to be shown in Impressionist salons. Instead, she focused on the prestigious and traditional Paris Salon.

The Little Soldier, 1870

L'Indolence, 1871-1872

Dieppe Beach towards the west cliffs, 1871

The Little Lever, 1875

Nanny with a child, 1877–1878

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━ Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) ;

She was the only American among the founding Impressionists. She came from a well-off family in Pittsburgh that supported a formal arts education first at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and then in Europe, after the vaunted Philadelphia school rebuffed her requests to study nude models.

She settled in Paris in 1874, where she began regularly showing her portraits in the Salon. In 1877 Degas invited her to begin showing with the Impressionists, and she participated in four of the eight exhibitions.

Cassatt's work combined the light color palette and loose brushwork of Impressionism with compositions influenced by Japanese art as well as by European old masters , and she worked in a variety of media throughout her career. This versatility helped to establish her professional success at a time when very few women were regarded as serious artists.

Woman with a Pearl Necklace, 1879

Margot in Blue, 1902

A Woman and a Girl Driving, 1881

The Boating Party, 1893-1894

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Jupiter and Io (1532-1533), by Antonio Allegri

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The birth of Venus (1863), Alexandre Cabanel

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Grace Rose (1866), by Frederick Sandys

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The Arnolfini Portrait (1434), by Jan van Eyck

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Smell - The Lady and the Unicorn

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Ophelia (1921), by Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser

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Interior of the British Institution (Old Master Exhibition, Summer 1832), by Alfred Joseph Woolmer

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Portrait of Empress Eugénie in Court Dress (1863), by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

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━ Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) ;

Born in 1841, she was the only woman invited to show in the first Impressionist exhibition (formerly called the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors and Printmakers) in 1874.

Her paintings were full of color and light, and she perfectly mastered the technique of painting fleeting shades and shadows.

She focused on her family, friends. Berthe Morisot's work is full of light, bright colors and the brush work is disjointed and varied. She accurately represented natural light by applying a large range of colors to the canvas with petite brush strokes. Although up close her paintings become indistinct, from a distance the works are unified with colors that merge together. Harsh lines are removed by a lack of contrasting tones.

Morisot had the good fortune to not only marry into an artistic family, but also to be wholeheartedly supported by her husband, Eugène Manet (Édouard Manet's younger brother), who sacrificed his own ambition in order to manage her artistic career. She exhibited a keen appreciation of public taste and as a result her works sold well during her lifetime and afterwards

The Harbor at Lorient, 1869

 Woman and child on a balcony, 1872

 In the Dining Room, 1875

Eugene Manet and His Daughter in the Garden 1883

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Vanity (1907), by Frank Cadogan Cowpercos

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Judith with the Head of Holophernes (1596), by Fede Galizia