M. Ravel (1875 -- 1937) Ondine Poem 1 from "Gaspard de la nuit"
Woman self portraits 1850-1900
Curators: Bob Van Blommestein & Floris Guntenaar


Johanne Mathilde Dietrichson, 1865
Johanne Mathilde Dietrichson was a (born Johanne Mathilde Bonnevie 12 July 1837 Christiania - 28 November 1921) was a Norwegian painter. She spent her youth in Trondhjem and Kongsberg. Later, she took drawing classes in Christiania, and then traveled in 1857 with Adolph Tidemand to Dusseldorf to educate themselves further/


Elise Ransonnet Villez, 1870
Elise Ransonnet-Villez or Elisa Nemes-Ransonnet (1843–1899) was an Austrian painter. Ransonnet-Villez was born in Vienna and became a pupil of Franz von Lenbach and Heinrich von Angeli.


Mary Cassett, 1878
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Pennsylvania, but lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists.


Nélie Jacquemart, 1880
Cornélia Barbe Hyacinthe Jacquemart, after marriage Nélie Jacquemart-André (Paris, 25 July 1841-Paris 14 May 1912) was a French painter. A student of Léon Cogniet, Jacquemart was best known for her portraits of famous personalities. In 1872 she met banker Édouard André at a portrait session, whom she eventually married in 1881.


Ellen Day Hale, 1885
Ellen Day Hale (February 11, 1855 – February 11, 1940) was an American Impressionist painter and printmaker from Boston. She studied art in Paris and during her adult life lived in Paris, London and Boston.


Sabine Lepsius, 1885
Sabine Lepsius (15 January 1864, Berlin – 22 November 1942, Bayreuth) was a German portrait painter. She was the daughter of portrait painter Gustav Graef. She studied with her father and married the painter Reinhold Lepsius.


Maria Slavona, 1887
Maria Slavona, born Marie Dorette Caroline Schorer (14 March 1865, Lübeck - 10 May 1931, Berlin) was a German impressionist painter.


Anna Bilinska, 1887
Anna Bili?ska-Bohdanowicz (1857 Z?otopol – 18 April 1893 Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish painter, known for her portraits. She was born Anna Bili?ska, the daughter of a Polish doctor in the formerly fronteer town of Z?otopol in the Russian Empire, where she spent her childhood.


Therèse Schwartze, 1888
Thérèse Schwartze (20 December 1851 – 23 December 1918) was a Dutch portrait painter.


Anna Bilinska, 1892
Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowicz (1857 Zotopol – 18 April 1893 Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish painter, known for her portraits. She was born Anna Bilinska, the daughter of a Polish doctor in the formerly fronteer town of Zotopol in the Russian Empire, where she spent her childhood.