Sunday, October 31, 2021

Dark ladies - an acknowledgement of Halloween, 2021

 
Lady Michelham, by Federico Beltrán Masses, 1920.
Sonja, by Christian Schad, 1928.
Portrait of a Noblewoman Dressed in Mourning, by Jacopo Chimenti, called Jacopo da Empoli, circa 1600.
La Dame sombre, by James Ensor, 1881.
The Young Widow, by Rolland Lefebvre, circa 1665.
Stefanina Primicile Carafa, Marchioness of Cicerale and Duchess of Montejasi, by Edgar Degas, 1875.
The Empress Doña Margarita de Austria in Mourning Dress, by Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo, 1666.
Portrait of a lady, unknown artist, 1918. The painting is signed, upper right, but I can't make out the name.
A Lady with a Black Veil, by Nikolaos Kantounis, 1819.
 Portrait of a lady, by Alessandro Allori, circa 1590-99.
Olimpia Maidalchini, by Diego Velázquez, 1650.
Portrait of Berthe Morisot with Hat, in Mourning, by Édouard Manet, 1874.
A Lady of the Horton Family, unknown artist, circa 1655.
Portrait of a lady, by Emmeline Deane, 1885.
Anne Dacre, Countess of Arundel, English School, circa first third of the seventeenth century.
Portrait of a woman, unknown artist, circa 1865.
Marie Dihau, by Edgar Degas, circa 1867-68.
Maria Elisabeta Dulliker, née Balthasar, Swiss School, seventeenth century.
 Moonlight, by Edvard Munch, 1893.
Lady in Mourning, by Martin Mendgen, 1930.




2 comments:

  1. i think margarita may be the little girl from LAS MENINAS, ten years on ...

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    1. She is, indeed! She's portrayed here at the age of fourteen, in mourning for her father; that same year she was married to her maternal uncle and paternal cousin, Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor. She was much loved by her parents and had a happy marriage but, weakened after four pregnancies - three of the babies died at birth or soon after - and several miscarriages, she herself died at the age of only twenty-one.

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