Half ladies and three-quarter females - a selection of portraits

 

Gräfin Chorinsky née Prinzessin Esterházy, by Friedrich von Amerling, 1838.

Elizabeth Howard, by Anthony van Dyck, circa 1638-40.

Catherine Clemens, by George Romney, 1788.

Unfinished portrait of Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, by Jean Ranc, 1724.

Marie Rinteau, called mademoiselle de Verrières, by François-Hubert Drouais, 1761 and later.
Apparently exhibited by Drouais at the Salon of 1761, the sitter's hairstyle was altered by the artist or someone else during the 1770s to make it more en vogue.

Susanna Highmore, the artist's daughter, by Joseph Highmore, circa 1740-45.

 Smiling Girl / Courtesan Holding an Obscene Image, by Gerrit van Honthorst, 1625. 
The model holds an image of a naked woman, perhaps the model herself, covering her face and captioned in Dutch Wie kent mijn naers van Afteren (Who
can recognize my backside from behind?). The small image likely advertises her services, as this was a common practice in the sex industry of the time.

Archduchess Maria Magdalena, Grand Duches of Tuscany, by Frans Pourbus the Younger, circa 1603-04.

Portrait of a Lady at a Harp, by Johann Julius Heinsius, 1785.

Madame Alexandre Dumas fils née Nadezhda von Knorring, by Jules Lefebvre, circa after 1864.

Madame Louis-François Bertin de Veaux née Augustine Bocquet, by Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, 1809.

Portrait of a Lady in a Green Dress, by Bartolomeo Veneto, 1530.

Mrs. John Sargent née Charlotte Bettesworth, by George Romney, circa 1778.

Giovanna Bagnara, by Pierre Subleyras, circa 1739.

Girl with a Canary, by Novak Radonić, 1865 (or 1858, depending on the source).

Olive Craster, by Nathaniel Dance-Holland, 1762.

Mary Josephine Drummond, condesa de Castelblanco, as Astrea, by Jean-Baptiste Oudry after Nicolas de Largillière, circa 1716.

Mrs. John Dawes, by George Romney, circa 1765-69.

Victoria, Duchess of Kent (the mother of Queen Victoria), by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1849.

Randomly XXIV

 

Knabe auf einer bunten Blumenwiese vor sommerlichem Himmel (Boy in a colorful flower meadow in front of a summer sky), Tom Von Dreger, 1919.

Gowns by Lucien Lelong, jewels by Mauboussin, photographed by Horst P. Horst for the 1 April 1935 issue of Vogue.

Evgeny Lushpin, circa 1999.

Madame Lambinet, née Nathalie Sinclair, by Gustave-Clarence-Rodolphe Boulanger, 1887.

Courtesy Stephen Rutledge.

Pansies and Fern-shoots, by John Brett, 1862.

Courtesy Stephen Rutledge.

Painting and Poetry, by Francesco Furini, 1626.

Still from the Swedish film Kamrater i Vapenrocken (roughly, Comrades in Uniform), 1938.

Goodnight, aka The Bedroom, by Dame Laura Knight, 1931.

Ivan Leontyev, by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein, before 1812.

L'Archer, by George Barbier, circa 1920s.

Cupid Preparing his Bow, by Jacob Huysmans (after Van Dyck), second half of the seventeenth Century.

Winged Cupid, by Antonio Canova, circa 1795.

Joséphine Baker, costumed for a performance at the Folies Bergère, 1937.

The Young Girl and the Cabbage, by Firmin Baes, 1903.

A lady seated with her pet spaniel in a park, circle of Jean-Frédéric Schall, circa 1780s.

Courtesy Stephen Rutledge.

French Windows 1916, by Tomas Clayton, 2016.

Gypsy Boy, New York City, by Helen Levitt, 1939.

Negligée worn by Marjorie Merriweather Post , circa 1918-21.

Study of a man, Rafael Pellicer Galeote, circa second quarter of the twentieth century.

Portrait of a nobleman at the age of eighteen, by Frans Pourbus the Younger, 1593.

The Michelin band performs at the inauguration of the Michelin Hour radio show, 17 April 1928.

Cours de danse, by Victor Gabriel Gilbert, 1905.

Ziegfeld Follies dancers, circa 1920s.

Figure study for The Spirit of Vulcan, Genius of the Workers in Iron and Steel, Rotunda, Pennsylvania State Capitol, by Edwin Austin Abbey, circa 1902-08.

"Buss[ing] and hugging."

Cherry Blossoms, by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872.

Seascape, Storm, by Claude Monet, 1866.

Walter Griffin, by Dennis Miller Bunker, 1881.

Anna Roslund, by Gabriele Münter, 1917.

Judith with the Head of Holofernes, by Massimo Stanzione, circa 1640.

Enfants en patins à roulettes, by Pierre Jahan, 1941.

Catherine Duchemin, flower painter, wife of the sculptor François Girardon, French School, circa 1663-65.

Saint Sebastian Thrown in a Pond, by Bernard Bénézet, 1866.

Julia Margaret Cameron, by George Frederic Watts, circa 1850-52.

Water Lily and Moth, by John La Farge, circa 1878.

Self-Portrait, by Philipp Veit, 1816.

Iokepa, Hawaiian Fisher Boy, by Hubert Vos, 1898.

The Pink Dress (Albertie-Marguerite Carré, later Madame Ferdinand-Henri Himmes), by Berthe Morisot, circa 1870.

Courtesy Stephen Rutledge.

Still life with fruits, flowers, shells, and insects, by Balthasar van der Ast, circa 1620.

Portrait of a Young Man, by Pompeo Batoni, circa 1760–65.

Courtesy Stephen Rutledge.

Natalia Alexandrovna von Buxhoeveden, née Alexeyeva, by Vladimir Borovikovsky, before 1808.

Norman Earthenware, aka A Pot from Rouen, by Pierre Bonnard, circa 1910.

Study of Lilia, by Carolus-Duran, 1887.