Princesses

Francesco Laurana
Portrait of a Princess of Naples
ca. 1470-80
marble
(lower portion lost in 1945 and replaced by plaster)
Bode Museum, Berlin

workshop of François Clouet
Portrait of a Princess
ca. 1565
oil on panel
Morgan Library, New York

Ottavio Leoni
Princess Camilla Orsini Borghese
1627
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Jan Mytens
Three Princesses of the House of Orange-Nassau
1670
oil on canvas
Bildgalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam

Antoine Pesne
Anna Amalie, Princess of Prussia
(in riding habit)
ca. 1744
oil on canvas
Bildgalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam

Antoine Pesne
Luisa Ulrika, Princess of Prussia
(later, Queen of Sweden)
ca. 1744
oil on canvas
Bildgalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam

Jean-Étienne Liotard
Princess Karoline Luise von Hessen-Darmstadt
(at her easel)
1745
pastel on vellum
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe

Louis-Michel Van Loo
Laure-Auguste de Fitz-James, princesse de Chimay
1767
oil on canvas
Château de Versailles

Anonymous Russian Artist
Baroness Stroganoff née Princess Belosselsky
ca. 1785
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Johann Friedrich August Tischbein
Friederike, Princess of Prussia
1796
oil on canvas
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Henry Fuseli
Siegfried and Princess Chriemhild
(scene from the Nibelungenlied)
1807
drawing
Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand

Causaheo Gattai after Salomon-Guillaume Counis
Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese
19th century
watercolor on ivory
Milwaukee Art Museum

Adolph Menzel
Wilhelmine, Princess of Prussia
ca. 1851-52
drawing
(study for group portrait)
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Adolph Menzel
Alexandrine, Princess of Prussia
ca. 1863-65
drawing
(study for group portrait)
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Anders Zorn
Princess Ingeborg of Sweden
1900
etching
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Cecil Beaton
Princess Natalia Pavlovna Paley
ca. 1930
gelatin silver print
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

The fates are envious, high seats quickly perish,
Under great burdens fals are ever greevous;
Roome was so great it could not beare it selfe;
So when this worlds compounded union breakes,
Time ends and to old Chaos all things turne;
Confused stars shal meete, celestiall fire
Fleete on the flouds, the earth shoulder the sea,
Affording it no shoare, and Phœbe's waine
Chace Phœbus and inrag'd afect his place,
And strive to shine by day, and full of strife
Disolve the engins of the broken world.

– from the First Book of Lucan, translated by Christopher Marlowe (published 1600)