Paintings of Women

A LOOK AT

Since the dawn of time women have been, if not the primary, important subjects in art. Going as far back as over 20, 000 years ago, we see the veneration of the female figure, possibly as a model of fertility.

WOMEN IN ART

TOP 14 PAINTINGS OF WOMEN

The Birth of Venus (c. 1484 to 1486) Alessandro Botticelli

#1

The Mona Lisa (1503) Leonardo da Vinci

#2

Venus of Urbino (1534) Tiziano Vecellio (Titian)

#3

Judith Slaying Holofernes (1614 – 1621) Artemisia Gentileschi

#4

Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665) Johannes Vermeer

#5

La Grande Odalisque (1814) Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

#6

Liberty Leading the People (1830) Eugène Delacroix

#7

Olympia (1863) Édouard Manet

#8

Whistler’s Mother (1871) James McNeill Whistler

#9

The Cradle (1872) Berthe Morisot

#10

Woman with a Parasol (1875) Claude Monet

#11

Portrait of the Artist (1878) Mary Stevenson Cassatt

#12

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) Gustav Klimt

#13

Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940) Frida Kahlo

#14