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| Anonymous Swiss Artist Woman standing between Drapes ca. 1914 lithograph (draft poster before lettering) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Ludwig Hohlwein Tanz Palast - Blumen Säle 1913 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Max Slevogt Portrait of dancer Marietta di Rigardo 1904 oil on canvas Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Aubrey Beardsley Woman among Trees (illustration for Malory's Morte d'Arthur) ca. 1893 drawing Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| Jean-Louis Forain La Sortie du Théâtre ca. 1885 watercolor and gouache on paper Morgan Library, New York |
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| James Tissot Seaside (July: Specimen of a Portrait) 1878 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Claude Monet Camille Monet in Japanese Costume 1876 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Carolus-Duran Portrait of Madame Goldschmidt 1874 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille |
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| Eugène-Louis Lami Entrance to a Drawing Room at Marlborough House 1871 watercolor and gouache on paper Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Alfred-Émile-Léopold Stevens The Visit before 1869 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Eugène Isabey Courtiers in an Interior 1864 oil on panel Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Hendrik Jacobus Scholten Morning Walk ca. 1860-70 oil on panel Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Eduard Pistorius Woman with a Mirror 1827 oil on panel Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Lady Sunderlin 1786 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Anthony van Dyck Portrait of a Genoese Noblewoman ca. 1625-27 oil on canvas Frick Collection, New York |
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| Master FP Woman pouring from Vessels ca. 1530-50 etching Hamburger Kunsthalle |
"If you bee resolv'd," said the daintie Urania, "folly it were to offer to perswade you from so resolute a determination; yet being so brave a Prince, stored with all vertuous parts, discretion and judgement, mee thinks, should not suffer you to burie them in the poore grave of Loves passion, the poorest of all other: these invite mee, as from your selfe, to speake to your selfe; Leave these teares, and woman-like complaints, no way befitting the valiant Perissus, but like a brave Prince, if you know shee bee dead, revenge her death on her murderers; and after, if you will celebrate her funeralls with your owne life giving, that will bee a famous act: so may you gaine perpetuall glorie, and repay the honor to her dead, which could not bee but touched by her untimely end."
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These wordes wrought so farre in the noble heart of Perissus, as rising from his leavie Cabine, then thus said hee, "Is Perissus the second time conquer'd? I must obey that reason which abounds in you; and to you, shall the glory of this attempt belong: now will I againe put on those habites which of late I abandoned, you having gained the victorie over my vowe. But I beseech you, tell me who my Counsellor is, for too much judgement I finde in you, to be directly, as you seeme, a meere Shepherdesse, nor is that beauty sutable to that apparell."
– from The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania, by the right honourable the Lady Mary Wroath, daughter to the right noble Robert, Earle of Leicester, and neece to the ever famous and renowned Sʳ Phillips Sidney knight, and to ye most excellant Lady Mary Countess of Pembroke, late deceased (London: John Marriott and John Grismand, 1621)