Thursday, August 7, 2025

Paradigms (Western)

Hans Bock the Elder
Portrait of Eva Truchsess von Rheinfelden
1580
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, Basel


Bartholomäus Bruyn the Younger
Portrait of a Lady of the von Kreps Family
ca. 1580-85
oil on panel
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Jacopo Bassano
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1580-90
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Alonso Sánchez Coello
Portrait of a Young Noblewoman
1593
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

workshop of Marcus Geeraerts the Younger
Portrait of a Lady of the early Stuart Court
ca. 1605
oil on panel
Savannah College of Art & Design Museum, Georgia

Daniel Dumonstier
Portrait of (perhaps) young Anne of Austria
1615
drawing
British Museum

Isaac Oliver
Seated Woman Asleep
before 1617
drawing
British Museum

Nicolas Lagneau
Portrait of an Old Woman
ca. 1620
drawing
British Museum

Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of Marchesa Elena Grimaldi-Cattaneo
ca. 1622-23
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Nicholaes Eliasz Pickenoy
Portrait of a Lady
1625
oil on panel
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

Cornelis de Vos
Portrait of a Lady
ca. 1625-30
oil on canvas
Princeton University Art Museum

Lucas Vorsterman the Elder after Leonardo da Vinci
Head of Leda
1629 (after an original painted in 1507)
drawing
British Museum

workshop of Peter Paul Rubens
Portrait of Helena Fourment (2nd wife of Rubens)
ca. 1630-32
drawing
British Museum

Frans Hals
Portrait of a Woman
1634
oil on panel
Detroit Institute of Arts

Samuel Hofmann
Portrait of a Woman
1636
oil on panel
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Ferdinand Bol after Rembrandt
Saskia as Flora
ca. 1635-40
drawing (after a painting)
British Museum

Justus Sustermans
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1635-45
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Thou sent'st me late a heart was crowned,
    I took it to be thine;
But when I saw it had a wound,
    I knew that heart was mine.

A bounty of a strange conceit!
    To send mine own to me,
And send it in a worse estate
    Than when it came to thee.

– anonymous, 17th century