François Boucher: Borée enlevant Orithye (1769)
This painting belongs to a series of six that Boucher painted for Jean-François Bergeret de Frouville’s hôtel in Paris. Four of them, including this one, are at the Kimbell Art Museum and the other two at the Getty Museum.
Alexandre Cabanel: Nymphe et Satyre (1860)
Pelagio Palagi: Diana the Huntress, c. 1828-30
The model was possibly the ballerina and mistress of Count Girolamo Malfatti Carlotta Chabert, whom Francesco Hayez portrayed as Venus around the same time.
Théodore Chassériau: The Two Sisters, 1843
The picture shows the artist’s sisters, Adèle and Aline. Adèle was thirty-three at the time, Aline, who never married, twenty-one. Together with his first mistress, Clémence Monnerot, the two sisters were his main models for many years.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Baigneuse, 1887.
Evelyn de Morgan: Boreas and Oreithyia, 1896
William Bouguereau: La Perle, 1894.
Zenobia’s last look on Palmyra
In 1888, Herbert Gustave Schmalz, son of a German father and an English mother, was thirty-two years old and had established a reputation as a painter of histories. Two years later, he would travel to Jerusalem and mainly paint New Testament themes for a while.
John William Godward: Faraway Thoughts, 1892.
Gavin Hamilton had already studied in Rome in the 1740s. After a short stay in London, he returned there for good in 1756. In the 1770s, he undertook many excavations as an art dealer and archaeologist. When he painted this life-size Venus giving Helen to Paris as his wife, now held by the Palazzo Braschi, in 1782-84, he had already spent about thirty years in Rome.
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