Classical Female Figures

Richly dressed female figures representing themes like vanity, wisdom, and devotion, depicted in classical engravings with intricate details.

Sculpture of Minerva, Anonymous, 1584 Caption in Latin. Print is part of an album. print maker: Italypublisher: Rome paper engraving Caption in Latin. Print is part of an album. print maker: Italypublisher: Rome paper engraving

Personification of the vanity or pride, depicted like a richly dressed female figure looking in a mirror.

The Delphic sibyl. Engraving by C. de Passe I.

Muze; Beelden in nissen.An image of a muse in a niche.

This copper engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi, circa 1505-1515, depicts Saint Catherine with her attributes including a wheel and book in a devotional composition.

Judith grasping the head of Holofernes by the hair and looking to the left, an old woman at right. Artist: After Guido Reni (Italian, Bologna 1575-1642 Bologna); Attributed to Giovanni Andrea Sirani (Italian, Bolognese, 1610-1670). Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 9 13/16 × 6 7/8 in. (25 × 17.5 cm). Date: 1600-1640. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Young farmer's, seen from the front, with suspended skirts; Figures a la mod.numbered 17

Libyche Sibylle; S. Libyssa; Twaalf Sibille. Libyche sibille

Sculpture of Minerva, Anonymous, 1584 Caption in Latin. Print is part of an album. print maker: Italypublisher: Rome paper engraving Caption in Latin. Print is part of an album. print maker: Italypublisher: Rome paper engraving

Lucretia.lucretia sitting with a blasted breast and on her shot the dagger with which they crossed herself. Assignment in undermarge.

The Third Wise Virgin. Artist: After Martin Schongauer (German, Colmar ca. 1435/50-1491 Breisach); Israhel van Meckenem (German, Meckenem ca. 1440/45-1503 Bocholt). Dimensions: Sheet: 4 11/16 × 3 3/16 in. (11.9 × 8.1 cm). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Maria with child in a niche. Maria with child standing on crescent nickel in Nis.

Erato, Charles David, after Hendrick Goltzius, 1605 - 1638 print In the middle of numbered: 7. print maker: Francepublisher: Paris paper engraving Erato (one of the Muses); 'Erato' (Ripa)

José Camarón / 'The Virgin of Mount Carmel'. XVIII century. Wash, Pencil on laid paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Saint Emerence, 1 of 25 plates from the series Martyrologium Sanctarum Virginum (Female MartyrSaints). Publisher: Adriaen Collaert, Flemish, 1560-1618

Saint Mary Magdalene. Dated: 1605. Dimensions: sheet: 20.6 × 15.5 cm (8 1/8 × 6 1/8 in.) plate: 15.2 × 11.5 cm (6 × 4 1/2 in.). Medium: etching on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: after Lucas van Leyden Raffaello Schiaminossi.

Sibille Van Cumae, Raffaello Schiambinosso, 1606 - 1609 print The Sibille van Cumae turned to the left and with a writing tablet in hand. On the right a glimpse to a landscape. Title and a Latin text in the end margin. Numbered bottom left: 7. Italy paper etching Cumaean sibyl. writing tablets

Venus, monogrammist IB (16th century), 1528 print Venus with a Brandedn heart in her right hand and worn a large arrow over her shoulder. There are a bull and a scales at her feet, they stand in front of the constellations. paper engraving (story of) Venus (Aphrodite)

Boetish Maria Magdalena, Werner van den Valckert, 1610 - 1612 print Maria Magdalena in a rocky landscape, with her ointment pot. For her an open book on a skull. The Hague paper etching / engraving the penitent St. Mary Magdalene (often before a cave, possibly at La Sainte-Baume hill): her long hair covers her (naked) body, she reads, meditates or raises her tear-filled eyes towards heaven

This copper engraving by Jacopo de' Barbari from the late 15th to early 16th century depicts Judith holding the head of Holofernes, showing figures, gesture, and setting.

The bleeding woman, Jan Saenredam, Balthasarus Schonaeus, Gerard Valck, 1661-1726

Of BoetvaDaDige Maria Magdalena, 1588 - 1592 print Oval representation of Maria Magdalena, at the end of the left, a book in the left hand, standing in a rocky environment, next to her an ointment pot and a skull. In the background Maria Magdalena at the foot of the crucified Christ. Netherlands paper engraving the penitent harlot Mary Magdalene; possible attributes: book (or scroll), crown, crown of thorns, crucifix, jar of ointment, mirror, musical instrument, palm-branch, rosary, scourge

Chastity, from The Virtues. Artist: Heinrich Aldegrever (German, Paderborn ca. 1502-1555/1561 Soest). Dimensions: Sheet: 4 × 2 3/8 in. (10.2 × 6.1 cm). Date: 1552. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

H. Barbara, Lucas Vorsterman (I), after Peter Paul Rubens, 1619 - 1675 print Antwerp paper engraving the virgin martyr Barbara; possible attributes: book, cannon(ball), crown, cross, chalice with wafer, Dioscuros (her father), peacock feather, sword, torches, mason's tools, tower

Minerva, Jan Saenredam, after Hendrick Goltzius, 1575 - 1607 print Minerva, with a helmet, a spear and the shield of Medusa. She looks at an owl in the clouds. The print is part of a three -part series with the three goddesses of the judgment of Paris and has a Latin caption. paper engraving attributes of Minerva: owl. (story of) Minerva (Pallas, Athena). attributes of Minerva. the Judgement of Paris (without Mercury)

Power; Fortitvdo; The seven virtues. Landscape with the female personification of power (fortitudo), one of the four cardinal virtues, with a broken column. On the left in the background, the Red Sea flushes Pharaoh and the Egyptian army. On the right in the background the temptation of Christ in the desert. In the margin a two-legged caption in Latin. Sixth print from a series with virtues.

Young woman with object that looks like Vogel, Marcantonio Raimondi, After Rafaël, 1511 - 1520 print paper engraving female sex; woman

The personified soul sits with the personification of the Flesh (worldly delights) under a pergola and rejects the meat on the table., print maker: Jan Luyken, publisher: Pieter Arentsz (II), Amsterdam, 1678 - 1687, paper, etching, letterpress printing, h 94 mm × w 74 mm

Saint Madeleine (Dutuit 28) Pierre-Paul Rubens. Sainte Madeleine (Dutuit 28). Floor, 17th century. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, small palace.

Honoré Daumier, La république de Milo, 1871 La république de Milo...

Allegory on Washington's death, 1799, Lambertus Antonius Claessens, after Jacques Kuyper, 1800 print History proposed by a youthful woman is pointed to a monument by a genius, on which one reads Washington Obiit MDCCXCIX. In the margin a four -line verse: "How did I wish only" etc. Netherlands paper grave-building, monumental tomb. 'Historia'; 'Historia' (Ripa)

Cimmeric Sibille; Sibylla cvmana; Sibilles. The Cimmeric Sibille, an old woman, is sitting on a base. She has a book. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a tachy series about the Sibilles.

Woman walking and holding her skirt with her right hand, shown in three-quarters view with head turned toward the viewer, from "Figures of Fashion" (Figures de modes) Antoine Watteau French Julius Model German ca. 1710

Barbarigo, Giovanni Francesco, Rome, Audenaerd, Robert van, Numismata virorum illustrium ex Barbadica gente, Personification of Abundance, verso - stamped, A console with the female personification of Abundance. She has a wreath of flowers in her hair and a horn of plenty in her right hand. In her other hand a bunch of ears of corn and barley. Some ears of corn fall to the ground. The print is part of an album., print, picture, album leaf, prints, height 182 mm, width 180 mm, 1663 - 1743, print maker, printmaker, 1673 - 1743, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Italian, 1658-04-29 - 1730-01-27, patron

Portrait of William, Hertog van Gloucester, John Smith (print maker/ publisher), after Gottfried Kneller, 1695 - 1742 print paper historical persons

In front of a gatehouse stands a young woman, holding a wreath of flowers in progress, while picking a tulip. Roses and asparagus continue to bloom in the flowerbed. The twins, this month's star sign, embrace and kiss each other. Below the depiction a poem in Dutch by Joost van den Vondel and a verse in French, May: Lady with a garland of flowers Maius (title on object) The twelve months (series title), print maker: anonymous, print maker: Jonas Suyderhoef, after: Joachim von Sandrart (I), Amsterdam, 1670 - 1726, paper, engraving, etching, h 332 mm × w 247 mm

Woman sitting with her head turned downward to her right and eyes closed ca. 1500-1550 Anonymous. Woman sitting with her head turned downward to her right and eyes closed 342686

Pen drawing by Sébastien Le Clerc depicting girls from the Arab mountains, rendered in brown and gray lavated ink on paper, mounted on a leaf with a pierced decorative strip.

Flora, Giacomo Piccini, After Titiaan, c. 1627 - After 1669 print Flora standing with flowers in her right hand. In the lower margin a two -line text in Latin. Venice paper engraving (story of) Flora. cut flowers; nosegay, bunch of flowers

Augustus, Julius Caesar.

Allegory of painting, Gerard de Lairesse, 1670 - 1680 print A woman and a child with a statue and a painting palette. Amsterdam paper 'Pictura', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ painting; 'Pittura' (Ripa). palette

H. Anna, Wenceslaus Hollar, after Leonardo da Vinci, 1645 print paper etching Anna, mother of Mary; possible attributes: book, Christ-child, lily, Virgin Mary

Personification of the rhetoric, Pierre Lombard, After L. Richer, 1623 - 1681 print paper engraving / etching Rhetoric ',' eloquence '(~ trivium); "Rettorica '(Ripa)

St. Mary Magdalen Trampling Her Valuables 1622-23 Lucas Vorsterman I Flemish. St. Mary Magdalen Trampling Her Valuables. Lucas Vorsterman I (Flemish, Zaltbommel 1595-1675 Antwerp). 1622-23. Engraving; third state of three (Hollstein). Jacques Philippe Le Bas (French, Paris 1707-1783 Paris). Prints

Euterpe. Dated: probably 1592. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Hendrik Goltzius.

Buste of a young woman, Louis de Deyster, 1666 - 1711 print Used paper engraving adolescent, young woman, maiden

Bandettini, Teresa.

Allegorical figure with a sphere. A standing winged women's figure with a sphere under her arm.

Pride; Superbia; Inventions. Personification of pride in the form of a sitting woman, looking in a convex mirror in her hand. A drapery behind her. In addition to her the peacock as her attribute. In the margin a single-line caption in Latin.

Stanislaus II. August, King of Poland Draftsman: Albertrandy, Antoni Zygmunt Aleksanderradier: Marstaller, G.J.Dation: 1750/1764

Passe, Crispijn van de (I), Utrecht, Crispijn van de (II), Sibyls, Sibylla Erythrea., Sibyl of Erythrae, verso lower left - stamped, The Sibyl of Erythrae is seated at a table, she holds a book in her left hand and with her right hand she strokes a lamb. She looks up to heaven where Christ appears with the cross. In the margin a caption in Latin. Print from a series with sibyls., print, prints, height 268 mm, width 197 mm, 1597 - 1670-01-06, print maker, printmaker, 1615 - 1615, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1564 - 1637, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

XXXX Wenus Toilelet Paolo Veronese unknown

Bartholomäus Ignaz Weiss, Diana, 1790s Diana

Saint Mary Magdalen in penitence. Etching after L. Pasinelli.

Head of a woman with her head turned to the left, from Livre de Têtes Gravées d'apres F. Boucher et Autres (Book of Heads Engraved after F. Boucher and Others) 18th century Anonymous, French, 18th century French. Head of a woman with her head turned to the left, from Livre de Têtes Gravées d'apres F. Boucher et Autres (Book of Heads Engraved after F. Boucher and Others) 414091

The Phrygian sibyl. Engraving by C. van den Queborne after C. de Passe I.

Flat decoration with justitia; Flat decorations. Ovals with four virtues in a picture frame of grotesken with animals; The Christian virtues. Leaf 4 of series of 4 numbered sheets with flat decorations. Justitia, personneligion of justice, standing in oval. In the frame is at the bottom of a owl between two peacocks. Shaded background.

Two richly dressed women, one with bazuin.copy to a part from the print or goldzius; The Judgment Of Midas.

Copper engraving by Hendrick Goltzius depicting Jahel from the biblical narrative, showing her in action with detailed anatomy, drapery, and expressive gesture, created around 1588.

Woman with chalice and scepter, Frederick Bloemaert, After Abraham Bloemaert, After 1635 - 1669 print A classic figure with a scepter in the right hand, keeping the left hand up with a chalice. Utrecht paper engraving the Greek heroic legends (II): heroines

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), female model, semi-paused, sitting at an oven, 1658

The Virgin with the Christ Child and the young Saint John the Baptist holding a bird at right, an oval composition, after Reni. Artist: After Guido Reni (Italian, Bologna 1575-1642 Bologna); Attributed to Lorenzo Loli (Italian, Bologna ca. 1612-1691 Bologna). Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 7 11/16 × 5 7/16 in. (19.6 × 13.8 cm). Date: ca. 1630-80. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Heard, 1663 - 1693 print A young woman listens to the music that a young man plays in front of her on the lute. Print from a series of five prints with performances of the senses. print maker: Low Countriespublisher: Amsterdam paper engraving hearing, listening (one of the five senses)

Flute player, Jan BroDeldet, 1690 - 1700 print In a garden with classic images is a boy with a flute. He wears a beret with feathers. Utrecht paper engraving flute, aulos, tibia. head-gear: hat (+ men's clothes)

Terpsichore, 1592 print A series of nine muses. First state, for captions. paper engraving Terpsichore (one of the Muses); 'Terpsicore' (Ripa)

Shepherdin with flower basket and shepherd's staff in a landscape, Anonymous, After François Boucher, 1727 - After 1754 print print maker: Francepublisher: Paris paper etching / engraving herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc.. pastorals, Arcadian scenes

Thalia; The nine muses. A series of nine muses. First state, for captions.

The FoolishVirgin. Artist: Martin Schongauer, German, ca. 1440/50-1491

Violin girl. A girl plays on a violin. On the head she wears a hat with a rose. The caption identifies her as the tempting Phyllis.

Amsterdam, Wit, Frederik de, Savery, Salomon, Portrait of a woman as Diana, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 350 mm, width 261 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1594 - 1683-10-16, print maker, printmaker, 1645 - 1706, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), Publication (Event), Publication, 1631 - 1706, publisher

Bust of a Young Woman (Jeune femme en buste), 1892, lithograph, Delteil, no. 26, State only, Auguste Renoir (artist) French, 1841 - 1919

Anonymous, Cleopatra. Photo production of drawing in 'The Reveley Collection of Drawings at Brynygwin', Fig. 52.

Libertas (Freedom), Figure 6 (from 8) from the series: Allegorical figures on the facade of the Golden Gate in Gdańsk Falck, Jeremias (approx. 1610 1677)

Judith with the head of Holofernes, Jurriaan Andriessen, after anonymous, 1752 - 1819, draughtsman: Jurriaan Andriessen, after: anonymous, 1752 - 1819, paper, pen, brush, h 144 mm × w 91 mm

Wisdom; Sapientia; Three virtues. The personification of wisdom is for a building and is working with a passer. There are still a few buildings in the distance. Under the show a Latin sense with an explanation of virtue.

Sensibility, Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743-1822, British, after George Romney, 1734-1802, British, Published by John Boydell, 1720-1804, British, Published by Josiah Boydell, 1752-1817, British, 1789, Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 17 3/8 x 13 9/16 inches (44.2 x 34.4 cm), Plate: 14 15/16 x 11 7/16 inches (38 x 29 cm), and Image: 12 5/8 x 9 13/16 inches (32.1 x 25 cm), costume, gesture, gown, headscarf, hills, muslin, pedestal, personification, reaching, religious and mythological subject, robe, sash, trees, urn, woman

Woman as a personification of hope (spes) with bread standing in niche, 1510 - 1575 print paper engraving Hope, 'Spes'; 'Speranza divina e certa' (Ripa) ~ one of the Three Theological Virtues

Face, Jacob van der Heyden, 1583 - 1645 print paper engraving eyeglasses, spectacles. binoculars, spy-glass, etc.. mirror. lantern

Judith with the head of Holofernes. Draughtsman: Jurriaan Andriessen. After anonymous. Dating: 1752 - 1819. Measurements: h 144 mm × w 91 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Jurriaan Andriessen.

Maria Cosway, Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi RA, 1728-1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764-99), after Richard Cosway, 1742-1821, British, Published by Gaetano Stefano Bartolozzi, 1757-1821, Italian, 1785, Soft-ground etching, etching, and stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 9 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches (23.1 x 14.9 cm) and Image: 8 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches (20.9 x 13 cm), apron, baroness, bonnet, book, collar, dress, foliage, history painter, lace, pearls, plumes, portrait, ribbons, ruffles, sash, trees, wig, woman

POLIMNIA MUSA DEL CANTO Y LA RETORICA - GRABADO REALIZADO POR J M TEJADA - S XIX. Author: LUIS PARET Y ALCAZAR (1746-1799). Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN. POLYMNIA. DEMOSTENES.

Campania Caserta Capua Museo Campano26. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Byzantine architectural fragments; parchment fragments with miniatures (12th century) from Montecassino; painted wooden crucifix (13th century); Carolingian crucifixes; Bishop's miter (11th century) of gold and silver damask; fresco (13th century). Post-medieval: Architecture (15th century). Formerly the Palazzo Antignano. Unusual Catalan/Moorish-style portal; Paintings on panel and canvas (15th-18th centuries); marble intarsia (16th century); marble sculpture: busts of Christ and Mary (17th century); sculpture of saints in marble and in wood (15th century); painted and gilded sculpture in wood; marble grave sculpture (16th century); sarcophagus with allegorical carvings; gold reliquary "Rosa d'Oro"; crucifix made of elephant tusk Specific Location: Pianterreno Antiquities: Italic sculpture (seated women holding babies); inscription. Photo campaign #1: 533 photos. Roman relief and sculpture; cinerary urns; Greek an

Woman with chalice and scepter; The small figures. A classic figure with a scepter in the right hand, the left hand loving a chalice.

The Young Housekeeper 1741-63 John Ingram British. The Young Housekeeper 394752

The personification of Christian poetry is inspired by Divine Love, Bernard Picart (workshop or), After Bernard Picart, 1713 print Landscape with the female personification of Christian poetry, a writing spring in hand. She looks up at the Divine Love, with a flame above her head and a burning arrow in her hand. He points her in heaven. In the background a shepherd with his herd. Amsterdam paper engraving / etching God's perfections. (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa). symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ poetry; 'Poesia' (Ripa)

Le Colin-Maillard. Jacques-Firmin Beauvarlet (France, Abbeville, 1731-1797)Jean-Honoré Fragonard (France, Grasse, 1732-1806). France, 1760. Prints; engravings. Etching and engraving

Logic, plate 22 from Arts and Sciences 1460-1470 Italy. The deck of fifty so-called Tarocchi are not tarots in the modern, fortune-telling sense, nor were they intended as playing cards. No cut-out impressions mounted for play are known, and they lack the suits and numbers of a regular deck. Instead, these delicately engraved didactic allegories are grouped in five numbered ranks describing the workings of the spheres of man, the muses, the liberal arts, the cosmos, and the heavens in order of increasing significance, and offer a didactic sequence to educate courtly youths or possibly university students, who could have used them as flashcards or a pamphlet.. Engraving in black on ivory laid paper . Master of the E-Series Tarocchi

Louis Petit after Jean Honoré Fragonard, La fiancee du roi de Garbe L'arbre La fiancee du roi de Garbe: L'arbre

Vertumnus and Pomona, Cornelis Martinus Vermeulen, after Antoine Coypel, 1654 - 1709 print Antwerp paper etching / engraving Vertumnus and Pomona

Hendrik Goltzius, Melpomene, probably 1592 Melpomene

. Female feminine personification, one of three divine virtues, with a cross and a chalice in her hands. Putti fly above her head with a laurel wreath and flowers.

Portrait of Anne Windham, Outgert Tromp, After Willem Wissing, 1650 - 1690 print Anne Windham as a child. She sits next to a vase with flowers. A garden in the background. paper engraving flowers. garden

CALCHAS, Greek soothsayer who correctly predicted duration of Trojan War, saw necessity for sacrificing Iphigenia &c, but died of disappointment when defeated by rival Mopsus

Anoniem, Cleopatra, Philip Henry Delamotte, 1855 - 1858 Photo production of drawing in 'The Reveley Collection of Drawings at Brynygwin', Fig. 52. paper. photographic support. cardboard albumen print Photo production of drawing in 'The Reveley Collection of Drawings at Brynygwin', Fig. 52. paper. photographic support. cardboard albumen print

Design for a print, Louise standing under a lime tree Designs for illustrations for Le Deserteur by Jean-Michel Sedaine (series title), draughtsman: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, 1770 - 1775, paper, pen, brush, h 90 mm × w 50 mm

Allegory on painting. A woman and a child with a statue and a painting palette.

Sadeler, Johann (I), Vos, Maerten de, Antwerp, Germany, Speculum Pudicitiae, Mirror of Honesty, Saint Catherine, verso bottom center - stamped, seated. She is reading a book. Next to her is a sword and a broken wheel. In the background, the wheel on which she is being broken is struck by lightning. The seventh print of a seventeen-part series with female saints., print, prints, 80, recto top right - handwritten, verso bottom left - stamped, height 183 mm, width 129 mm, South Netherlands, 1550 - 1600-08, print maker, printmaker, 1583 - 1587, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1532 - 1603-12-04, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Lisabetta with the head of Lorenzo, James Mcardell, after Francesco Furini, c. 1745 - 1765 print Illustration with a story on the fourth day of Boccacci's Decamerone. London paper (scenes from) specific works of literature: Boccaccio, Decamerone. female literary characters. names of literary characters

Polyhymnia, 1592 print The Muse Polyhymnia sitting with Caduseus. With Latin text by Franco Estius in the margin under the print. Haarlem paper engraving Polyhymnia (one of the Muses); 'Polinnia' (Ripa)

Pharaoh Cleopatra VII born 69 B.C., died 12 August 30 B.C., ruled Egypt as the last queen of the Macedonian-Greek dynasty of the Ptolemies from 51 B.C. to 30 B.C., Cleopatra's death by the bite of the serpent, painting by Willem Panneels, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the period.

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