Vingt-six dames, trois filles - female portraits

 

Caroline Lefebvre, vicomtesse de Fontanges, by Antoine Vestier, 1787.

Isabella of Portugal, workshop of Rogier van der Weyden, circa 1450.

Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, by Philippe Vignon, circa 1673.

Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Hereditary Princess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, unknown miniaturist, 1799.

Victoria, Princess Royal, Crown Princess Frederick William of Prussia, by Joseph Hartmann, 1858.

Portrait of a girl aged six holding a book of music, English School,1589.

Mrs. Mary Robinson, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, circa 1783-84.

Study for the above.

Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, by Heinrich von Angeli, 1898.

Portrait of a Lady, traditionally identified as Louise de Lorraine, by Jean de Court (formerly attributed to François Clouet), circa 1570-79.

Matilde Juva Branca, by Francesco Hayez, 1851.

Selina, Lady Skipwith, by Joshua Reynolds, 1787.

Marie Dorothée Renouard, by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, 1793.

Repòs, by Marisa Roësset Velasco, 1928.

Madame Hurault de Sorbée, née Elisabeth Kastner (called Lisbeth), by Alexandre-François Caminade, circa 1812.

 Princess Charlotte of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria, later Empress Carlota of Mexico, by Jean-François Portaels, 1857.
Her toilette is an interpretation of the regional costume of Brianza; her husband Maximilian was viceroy of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia from 1857 to 1859.

Queen Elizabeth I, attributed to George Gower, possibly circa 1567.

 The actress Rachel (née Elisa-Félix) as Catherine the Great in Eugène Scribe's La Czarine, by Edmond-Aimé-Florentin Geffroy, 1855.

Princess Karoline Friederike Wilhelmine of Hesse-Kassel, by Friedrich Bury, 1820.

Elisabeth Alexandrine Maria Berthier, Princess of Wagram, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, circa 1870.

Flora, a portrait of either Vittoria della Rovere from 1639, or of Isabella d'Este from circa 1650-60, by Justus Sustermans.

Tommasina Balbi Cambiaso, by Anton Raphael Mengs, 1771.

Wilhelmine Begas, the artist's wife, by Carl Joseph Begas, 1828.

A young princess (probably Dorothea of Denmark), by Jan Gossaert, circa 1530-32.

Portrait of a lady in green turban, by Aimée Brune-Pagès, 1834.

Anna Maria Vasa, daughter of King Sigismund III of Poland, by Martin Kober, 1596. Three years old in the painting, she died at seven.

Marie-Anne-Éléonore-Félicité le Planquois, by Alexander Roslin, circa 1769.

Creole in a Red Turban, by Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans, circa 1840.

Virginie Lupin, the wife of prefect Achille François Bégé, by Louis Hersent, circa 1825-30.

Maria Leopoldine von Habsburg-Tirol, Holy Roman Empress, by Justus Sustermans, circa 1647-50.

Eight ladies in white

Madame Philippe Lenoir, by Émile-Jean-Horace Vernet, 1814.

Eugenia de Montijo, condesa de Teba (the future Empress Eugénie of the French), by  Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, 1849.

Anne Pauline Dufour-Feronce with her son, Jean-Marc-Albert, by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, 1802.

Lady in a Salon, French school, circa 1820s.

I love the bit of wintry landscape just glimpsed through the window.

Oddly, during this period artists often painted women's feet as absurdly small. Even the most accomplished painters frequently went along with this strange trend.

Fürstin Maria Teresa von Hohenzollern, née Principessa di Borbone delle Due Sicilie, by Philip de László, 1900.

The Duquesa de Osuna, a young woman and child, by Agustín Esteve, circa 1796-97. Given the date, the child could be the duchess' youngest daughter, Manuela.

 Both ladies are wearing the Orden de las Damas Nobles de María-Luisa.

Madame Tallien (Thérésa Cabarrus; by the date of this portrait, princesse de Chimay), by Jean-Bernard Duvivier, 1806.