The power in turning away - portraits of the female profile

 

Eugénie Ritter, by Benjamin-Constant, 1903. 

Une femme de chez nous au cheveux crépus (A local woman with curly hair), by Takou D’Assié, circa 2020.

Portrait of a Lady in Red, Florentine School, circa 1460-70.

Portrait of Woman Turned, by Coolidge Ozaki, circa 1942-45.

The Orchid, by Fujishima Takeji, 1926.

Woman or goddess, nicknamed “La Parisienne”, from the western wing of the palace at Knossos, circa 1350 BCE.

Portrait of a Woman in Profile, Turned to the Left, by William Sommer, 1890.

Study of the Head of a Young Woman in Profile, by Matthijs Maris, 1855.

Medallion, double portrait of the artist and her lover Nesta Obermer, also called the "YouWe" painting, by Gluck, 1936.

Profile Portrait of a Lady, American School, circa 1835-40.

Tomb wall depicting Queen Nefertari, consort of Rameses II, circa 1298-1235 BCE.

Portrait Study in Profile, by Marion L. Pooke, circa 1911.

Head in Profile, by Emil Nolde, 1919.

Profilo di donna, by Charles Lefèbvre, nineteenth century.

Profile Portrait of a Woman to the Left, unknown pastellist, circa 1800-20.

Supposed posthumous portrait of Cleopatra VII of Egypt, from Herculaneum, circa first century AD.

Profile of an Italian Woman by Mary Cassatt, 1873.

Portrait of a Young Woman, by Sofonisba Anguissola, circa 1580s.

A Young Woman, by Friedrich von Amerling, 1834.

Noia Tangerina (Girl from Tangiers), by Josep Tapiró i Baró, circa 1900-10.

Portrait of a Young Girl, by Philip Wilson Steer, 1932.

Classical Head in Profile, by William Hoare, circa second half of the eighteenth century.

Profil de femme au chignon (Profile of a woman with a chignon), by Pablo Picasso, 1904.

Nanna, Profile to Right, by Anselm Feuerbach, 1864.

Profile of a Blonde Woman on a Blue Background, by Francis Picabia, circa 1941-1942.

Portrait of Lady Vivien, by Konstantin Makovsky, 1900.

Portrait of a Lady in Profile, by Carel Fabritius, 1654.

Head of a Woman Seen in Profile, by Bartolomeo Passarotti, circa second half of the sixteenth century.

Profile of a Woman, by Fujishima Takeji, 1926-27.

Profile of a Young Woman, by Giovanni Boldini, circa 1880s (?).

Portrait of a Young Woman in Profile with a Mask in her Right Hand, by Giambattista Piazzetta, circa 1720-30.

Porträtt av Ung Kvinna i profil (Portrait of young woman in profile), by Emilie Mundt, circa 1880s.

Profile Portrait of a Young Lady, by Piero del Pollaiuolo, circa 1465.

Young Girl in Profile, by Alexei Alexeevich Harlamoff, circa 1880s.

Blackfoot Woman, by Joseph Henry Sharp, 1905.

Profile of a woman, India, Delhi, circa first half of the nineteenth century.

Rembrandt’s Mother, by Jan Lievens, circa 1629.

Bathsheba, by Philip Wilson Steer, circa 1919-21.

Profile of a Nubian Girl, by Franz Xavier Kosler, before 1905.