Portrait d'une jeune parisienne by Jean Béraud (French, 1849-1936) Private collection

Seated Woman by Marie Bracquemond (French, 1841-1916) Petit Palais, Musée des beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris

A young woman in a long black dress (c. 1878) by Eugène Faure (French, 1822-1878) Private collection

La Parisienne (c. 1876) by Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883) Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden Hélène André (1856-1933) also posed for Degas' L’Absinthe (1875-76); Gervex’s Rolla (1878); and Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881). She began acting in 1877, as Ellen Andrée.

La Parisienne (1874) by Pierre Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919) National Museum Cardiff, Wales The model is actress Marie Henriette Alphonsine Grossin (1857-1944), who began using the stage name Henriette Henriot in 1874. @artukdotorg.bsky.social

Portrait of a Woman in Gray (c. 1865) by Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917) @metmuseum.org

May Night (1906) by Willard Metcalf (American, 1858-1925) @ngadc.bsky.social Florence Griswold (shown, center) took in boarders, including Metcalf, Childe Hassam, and J. Alden Weir, at her house Old Lyme, Connecticut, forming an artists' colony.

Mother and Daughter (1879) by Federico Zandomeneghi (Italian, 1841-1917) Private collection #MothersDay

A mother and daughter reading (1882) by Auguste Toulmouche (French, 1829-1890) Private collection

Mrs. Cornelia Ward Hall and Her Children (1880) by Michele Gordigiani (Italian, 1835-1909) Museum of the City of New York

Mrs. William T. Evans and Her Son (1895) by Henry O. Walker (American, 1843-1929) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

A Mother’s Joy (1889) by William Merritt Chase (American, 1849-1916) Private collection

A mother (1884) by Silvestro Lega (Italian, 1826-1895) Private collection

Catherine Smith Gill and two of her children (1877) by James Tissot (French, 1836-1902) Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool @artukdotorg.bsky.social

Mother and Child (1873) by George Elgar Hicks (British, 1824-1914) Manchester Art Gallery @artukdotorg.bsky.social

In May (1898) by Vlaho Bukovac (Croatian, 1855-1922) Private collection

Peonies (c. 1907) by Matilda Browne (American, 1869-1947) Florence Griswold Museum, Connecticut

Fleur de Lis (c. 1895-1900) by Robert Lewis Reid (American, 1862-1929) @metmuseum.org

A wholesome story for nerds: On Saturday, I was signing books at a local bookstore for Independent Bookstore Day. The store had a signing-palooza with new authors every hour; toward the end of my hour, a woman came up and asked what my book was about. "Dictionaries," I said, and she lit up. 1/n

Blues (c. 1909) by Ettore Tito (Italian, 1859-1941) Private collection

The Milliner by Eva Gonzalès (French, 1849-1883) The Art Institute of Chicago

Lady trying on a hat (1909) by Frederick Carl Frieseke (American, 1874-1939) Private collection

Lady in Blue (1897) by Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta (Spanish, 1841-1920) Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain

Woman in Violet Chapeau (c. 1904) by Louis Mayer (American, 1869-1969) Private collection

Jeune femme à sa toilette by Charles Henry Tenré (French, 1854-1926) Private collection

La Toilette (c. 1910) by Richard E. Miller (American, 1875-1943) Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas

Young Woman Powdering Herself (c. 1888-90) by Georges Seurat (French, 1859-1891) The Courtauld Gallery, London

Woman Arranging Her Hair, Opus 227 (Arabesques for a Dressing Room) 1892 by Paul Signac (French, 1863-1935) Private Collection

Before Her Appearance (La Toilette, 1913) by Frederick Carl Frieseke (American, 1874-1939) Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida

Coquèterie (1911) by Félix Vallotton (French, 1865-1925) Private collection

Awakening, Boulevard de Clichy (1892) by Anders Zorn (Swedish, 1860-1920) Private collection

La Toilette (c. 1890) by Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta (Spanish, 1841-1920) Private collection

Woman at Her Toilette (1875-1880) by Berthe Morisot (French, 1841-1895) The Art Institute of Chicago

The Morning Toilette (Le petit lever, 1875) by Eva Gonzalès (French, 1849-1883) Private collection

The Toilette (1863) by Henry Nelson O'Neil (British, 1817-1880) The Amelia, Tunbridge Wells, Kent

Young Lady at Her Toilette (1840) by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian, 1793-1865) Vienna Museum, Austria

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884-86, border added 1888-89) by Georges Seurat (French, 1859-1891) The Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Mary Emma Jones (1874) by Emma Sandys (British, 1843-1877) Private collection Mary Emma Jones, a former actress, modelled for many works by Emma’s brother, Frederick Sandys (1829-1904), with whom she lived as his common-law wife.

The Garden Wall (1910) by John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925) @mfaboston.bsky.social

In the Garden by Frédéric Soulacroix (French/Italian, 1858-1933) Unlocated

Young Lady in Flower Garden by Tivadar Zemplényi (Hungarian, 1864-1917) Private collection

The Patterned Dress (1891) by Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868-1940) Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil

April (The Green Gown) 1920 by Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935) Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina

Lilies (1874) by Gustav Pope (British, 1831-1910) Private collection #HappyEaster

Strawberries (1889) by William J. McCloskey (American, 1859-1941) Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, Illinois

Still Life with Strawberries and Nuts (1822) by Raphaelle Peale (American, 1774-1825) @artinstitutechi.bsky.social

Pâquerettes (Daisies) 1894 by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French 1825-1905) Private collection

Dressing the Queen is out tomorrow! It seeks to tell stories of long forgotten artisans like Ethel Oatham, a dress trimmings maker of the type that decorates this late #1860s mantle, twisting and braiding yards of silk. The labour survives, the names do not @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

No Fool Like an Old Fool (1868) by Alfred Wordsworth Thompson (American, 1840-1896) Private collection

Portrait of Karolina Janina Leonia Wereszczakowa (1883) by Leopold Horowitz (Hungarian, 1838-1917) The National Museum in Warsaw, Poland