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| Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou Self Portrait 1777 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans |
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| Marie-Geneviève Bouliard Self Portrait 1792 oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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| Gustaf Wappers Young Painter in a Reverie 1857 oil on panel Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
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| Ethel Reed Self Portrait 1895 linocut National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Baron Adolf De Meyer Portrait of Gertrude Käsebier ca. 1910 platinum print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Alfred Stieglitz Georgia O'Keeffe ca. 1920 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Pegi Nicol Macleod Pegi by Herself ca. 1926 drawing Ottawa Art Gallery, Ontario |
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| Minna Citron Self Portrait 1932 lithograph Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Lisette Model Dorothea Lange 1946 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Irving Penn Georgia O'Keeffe 1948 platinum palladium print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Mariana Yampolsky Elizabeth Catlett ca. 1949 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Photographer Isabel Bishop 1959 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Mimi Jacobs Joan Brown 1980 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Lee Krasner 1981 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Nancy Lee Katz Nancy Spero 1993 gelatin silver print Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Abe Frajndlich Louise Bourgeois 1994 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Agus Suwage Yoko Ono performing Cut Piece (1965) 2005 watercolor on paper National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
Beauty
Hornes to Buls wise Nature lends:
Horses she with hoofs defends:
Hares with nimble feet relieves:
Dreadful teeth to Lions gives:
Fishes learn through streams to slide:
Birds through yeelding air to glide:
Men with courage she supplies:
But to Women these denies.
What then gives she? Beauty, this
Both their arms and armour is:
She, that can this weapon use,
Fire and sword with ease subdues.
– from Anacreontea (short anonymous ancient Greek poems in the spirit of Anacreon)
as translated by Thomas Stanley (1651)