Love this idea of celebrating too, today! Not to detract from Coignet, but we contribute representations of the Magdalene by in different media: & https://t.co/axgLZE3DGF

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Born in 1749: French Painter (1749-1803)

Presumed Portrait of Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles, Marquise de Lafayette (1759-1807), 1790

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Born in 1749: French Painter (1749-1803)

Portrait of a Woman, 1780-8


Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne

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Born in 1749: French Painter (1749-1803)

Portrait of Stéphanie Félicité, Madame de Genlis (1746-1830), 1790

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Mater dolorosa with Symbols of the Passion, 1657, by (Italian, 1638-1665). Held in the Regional Museum Complex, Emilia Romagna, National Art Gallery of Bologna; source, https://t.co/dNucN7gtKj

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In light of the covid crisis, the has kindly made its April issue free to any reader: https://t.co/sVQfPtHpdZ. There's an article on p. 300 about Persian Woman Worshipping the Rising Sun (1784, held at ).

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Coming up in our new series will be by Catherine Hall-van den Elsen. Here is The Education of the Virgin, made early 1680s by the most significant female sculptor of 17th-c Spain.

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For our final artist in the challenge on this we present work by the outstanding Scottish wood engraver Agnes Miller Parker. These engravings are from Thomas Gray‘s, 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,' published by the Limited Editions Club.

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Handwashing paintings from Janet Fry and Sharon Madanes

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