Randomly IX

Mary Ruthven, his wife, by Anthony van Dyck, 1639.

Vanitas, by Pietro Negri, 1662.

Unknown, ND.

Elegante au sofa, by Julius LeBlanc Stewart, 1895.

Unknown, ND.

Oedipus confronting the Sphinx, by François-Xavier Fabre, 1806.

Nadezhda Polovtseva, by Charles François Jalabert, circa 1870s.

Giuseppa Carcano, Marchesa di Visconti di Borgorato, by Baron Gérard, 1810.

Unknown, ND.

The King's State Bedchamber, Windsor Castle, by James Roberts, 1855. (Decorated for the visit of the Emperor and Empress of the French.)

María Josefa Amalia of Saxony, Queen of Spain, by Vicente López y Portaña, 1828.
(By the slight discoloration in the paint surface, it's apparent that this was at one time framed as an oval.)

Portrait of a Lady, by François Boucher, circa 1760-70.

"Portrait of Fersen (?)", by Franz Krüger, 1850.

Unknown, ND. (Courtesy Ralf de Jonge.)

Jane Digby, Lady Ellenborough, by Sir William Ross, circa 1825-30.

Portrait of Mrs J., by Józef Męcina-Krzesz, 1912.

Alexander Filippovich Kokorinov, by Dmitry Levitsky, 1769.

Reference Nude, by sculptor Jacques de Lalaing, circa 1880s-90s.

Unknown, ND.

Triple portrait of mignons of Henri III, by Lucas de Heere, circa 1570. (For the record, these are all young men.)

The coffins of Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and two of her children, in the Mausoleum at Darmstadt, by  Heinrich Reinhard Kroh, 1879.

Unknown, circa 1850. (Sisters...?)

Four African American women at Atlanta University, Georgia, 1899.

Etude d'homme allongé sur une balustrade, by Carolus-Duran,1875.

Study of a Swimmer, by J. C. Leyendecker, circa first quarter of the twentieth century.

Unknown, circa 1920s.

The Maid, by Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg, 1862.

Portrait of a young lady with a white veil, French School, circa 1800.

Study of a man, by Anton Ažbe, 1886.

HRH Prince Bertil of Sweden, unknown photographer, 1934.

Sarah Siddons, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1804.

Johanna Sacco as Medea, by Joseph Hickel, 1786.

Narcissus, by Jan Cossiers, 1636-38.

Francis George “Kicho” Harrison, by George Platt Lynes, 1940.

Les Dames en jaune

The Yellow Dress, by Gustave Jacquet, circa 1896.

Yellow is my least favorite color. Yes, it almost certainly is. And what a silly thing that is to say! An artist, of all people, saying that one color or another is his favorite or least favorite. Very silly. Yet I have no qualms about saying that yellow is the most important color. Because I don't doubt that at all. Though there's almost never anything in my paintings that you would describe as yellow, I use that color in my work far more than any other. And if I understood anything about color theory, I could probably tell you why that is. I'm guessing it's got something to do with light. Uh... the way light reflects? Or... OK, I have no idea as to why I use so much yellow. I just know that I do. And here are some paintings of ladies by artists who've also used a lot of yellow in their work and who are not afraid to let you know it.

Lady in Yellow, by Susan Watkins, 1902.

Lady in Yellow, by Giovanni Boldini, 1912.

William II, Prince of Orange, and his wife Mary Stuart, by Gerrit van Honthorst, 1647.

Pauline in the Yellow Dress [the artist's wife], by Sir James Gunn, 1944.

À la toilette, by Gustave Léonard de Jonghe, circa 1880.

Emily Warren Roebling, by Carolus-Duran, 1896.

Countess Elizaveta Alexandrovna Demidova, née Stroganova, by Robert Lefèvre, circa 1800-1805.

Lady in Yellow, by Thomas Wilmer Dewing, 1888.

Lady at a Piano, by Vincent Dinty 1793.

Simone Gentile in a Yellow Gown, Serge Ivanoff, 1954.

In the Country, by Alfred Stevens, 1867.

Grand Duchess Vladimir (Maria Pavlovna), by François Flameng, 1898.

Princesse de Broglie, by James Tissot, circa 1895.

Lady in a Yellow Dress, Max Kurzweil, 1899.