FEMALE BEAUTY IN ART

The Poppy Fairy by Luis Ricardo Falero, 1888 (detail)





Morgan Le Fay by Anthony Frederick Sandys, 1864






The Meditation by Francesco Hayez, 1851






The Vision by Ary Scheffer, 1846






Frances Anne Kemble as Beatrice by Thomas Sully, 1833

Vision of Faust (detail) by Luis Ricardo Falero, 1878

#5 in my top five favourite posts. I love the way Falero paints women - as gorgeous, terrifying hell-beasts with realistically chubby stomachs. This was also the first post I had that broke 1,000 notes, so it holds a special place in my heart for that too.

Mary Queen of Scots Bidding Farewell to France, 1561 by William Powell Frith, 1851

Sappho On the Leucadian Cliff by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, c. 1800-10

The circlet of white flowers, Elisabeth Sonrel 

femalebeautyinart:

Study of a Woman’s Head by William Bouguereau, c. 1898

And all of a sudden there grows this delicate head out of blank paper…

See also: John Singer Sargent, William Mulready, Hans Holbein the Younger, and the Fadeaway Girl

The Pearl by William Bouguereau, 1894

Pandora by William Bouguereau, 1890

L'Amour et Psyché, William Bouguereau

An Afternoon Idyll by Auguste Toulmouche, 1874

Windflowers by John William Waterhouse, 1903

Waterhouse is amazing. Always

Salome by Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1530

John William Waterhouse, Hylas and The Nymphs (detail)

1896

Les Trois Grâces by Edouard Bisson, 1899

The Fresh Streams Ran By Her by Lexden Lewis Pocock, later 19th century

The Anticipated Letter by Harry George Theaker, late 19th/early 20th century

Tomb of the Poet, Pedro Sáenz Sáenz

Dryad, Gabriel Guay

Promenade dans la neige par James Tissot .

Charles-Amable Lenoir, A Dance By The Sea, 19th century

Anger by Raphael Kirchner, early 20th century

Dawn by Luis Ricardo Falero, 1883

The Love Letter by John William Godward, 1913

Detail of The Letter by Auguste Toulmouche, 1879

Detail of Venus Binding Her Hair by John William Godward, 1897

Birth of Venus by Konstantin Makovsky, late 19th-early 20th century

Jean Raoux [French Rococo Era Painter, 1677-1734]

A Study in Yellow by Albert Joseph Moore, 1880

Invocation by Frederic Leighton