Artemisia Gentileschi. Judith beheading Holofernes (‘Giuditta decapita Oloferne’), ca. 1620 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).

Oil on canvas: 199 x 162.5 cm. Feminist inspiration. Earlier version (ca. 1612, without the bracelet) at the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples.

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Van Limbourg brothers. Book of Hours of the Duke of Berry - August ('Très riches heures du Duc de Berry - Août'), ca. 1415 (Musée Condé, Chantilly).

Manuscript illumination/ miniature on vellum: ca. 22.5 x 13.6 cm(!). Detail.

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Jocelyn Hobbie. Coriopsis, 2015 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on canvas: 50.8 x 50.8 cm.

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Barthel Beham. Portrait of a Woman with a Parrot (‘Bildnis einer Frau mit Papagei’), 1529 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).

Oil on lime: 87.4 x 68 cm. Pendant with ‘Portrait of an Arbitrator’: here.

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Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski). Thérèse, 1938 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Oil on cardboard on wood: 100.3 x 81.3 cm.

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Jan van Eyck. Ghent Altarpiece interior Panels (‘Het Lam Gods’), ca. 1432 (Sint-Baafskathedraal, Ghent).

Oil on oak: 340 x 440 cm (open view).

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Jonathan Gardner. In the Mirror, 2016 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on linen: 172.7 x 132.1 cm.

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Gérard Schlosser. Do you see the Lark? (‘Tu la vois toi l’alouette?’), 1976 (private collection).

Acrylic on canvas: 120 x 120 cm.

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Edvard Munch. Woman hurrying Downwards (‘Kone på sprang nedover’), 1911 (Munchmuseet, Oslo).

Oil on canvas: 120 x 94 cm. Photo credit: Sidsel de Jong.

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Matthias Weischer. Striptease, 2007 (private collection).

Oil and wax crayon on canvas: 60.8 x 70.3 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s London, February 2013.

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Jacob van Loo. Scene with Bacchantes (‘Bacchanten-scène’), 1653 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).

Oil on canvas: 63 x 55.5 cm.

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Frits Thaulow. Winter Landscape with a Stream, 1895 (private collection).

Pastel on canvas: 59 x 97 cm. Auctioned at Bukowskis Stockholm, autumn 2011. Several similar pastel-on-canvas versions in other private collections.

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Leonardo da Vinci. Lady with an Ermine, ca. 1490 (Muzeum Czartoryskich, Kraków).

Oil on wood: 54 x 39 cm. One of only four portraits of women painted by Leonardo da Vinci. The subject has been identified as Cecilia Gallerani, who was the mistress of Leonardo's employer Ludovico Sforza. Signature in the upper left corner is not original. 

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Ekaterina Popova. Laundry Day, 2016 (private collection).

Oil on wood: 40.6 x 50.8 cm.

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Michaël Borremans. The Ear II, 2011 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on canvas: ca. 80 x 60 cm.

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Erik Mattijssen. Sarat Bose Road, 2016 (private collection).

Gouache on paper: 110 x 80 cm.

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Vincent van Gogh. The Olive Trees, 1889 (Museum of Modern Art, New York).

Oil on canvas: 72.6 x 91.4 cm.

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Xevi Solà Serra. Nerdy, ca. 2014 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on canvas: 32 x 21 cm.

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Giovanni Boldini. Consuelo Vanderbilt and her Son, 1906 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Oil on canvas: 221.6 x 170.2 cm.

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Peter Paul Rubens. Four Studies of an African Man (‘Quatre études de la tête d'un Maure’), ca. 1615 (Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels).

Oil on canvas: 51 x 66 cm. Similar panel in the J. Paul Getty Collection, dated ca. 1620, attributed to the workshop of Rubens.

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Peder Mørk Mønsted. Sunlit Winter Landscape, 1919 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 71.5 x 97.5 cm. Mønsted = guilty pleasure. Auctioned at Bukowskis Stockholm, spring 2013.

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Adriaen Coorte. Still Life with Asparagus and Red Currants ('Asperges en rode aalbessen'), 1696 (National Gallery of Art, Washington).

Oil on canvas: 34 x 25 cm.

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Robert Lemler. Floating, 2010 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on canvas: 25.4 x 35.6 cm. Hilarious and uplifting.

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Alexander Roslin. The Lady with the Veil, 1768 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).

Oil on canvas: 65 x 54 cm. Suzanne Roslin, the artist’s wife.

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Hans Hoffmann. A Hare in the Forest, ca. 1585 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).

Oil on wood: 62.2 x 78.4 cm. Inspired by Durer’s watercolour, but unique for its vivid detail and striking arrangement.

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Rosa Bonheur. Ploughing in the Nivernais (‘Labourage nivernais’), 1849 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris).

Oil on canvas: 133 x 260 cm(!). Also known as 'Oxen ploughing in Nevers'. After a financial crisis, bad harvests, soaring unemployment and yet another revolution in 1848, the French Republic needed to be rebuilt. Bonheur had already gained a reputation, and she made this painting by commission of the government. It was shown in the Salon where it won her a First Medal. Some have seen this work as a glorification of peasant life or a promotion of animal rights. Bonheur obviously respected and admired animals (the men are almost hidden between te oxen), but this is first and foremost ordinary propaganda. Retour à l’Ordre! Stop the chaos and strife, go to work, and shut up.

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Carl Johansson. A cold September Day in Medelpad (‘Kall septemberdag i Medelpad’), 1904 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).

Oil on canvas: 80 x 110 cm.

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