Some were symbols of beauty and femininity of their time, while others conquered with their intellect and unconventional character. But all of them were Mus es of foreign artists—captured in well-known paintings of the past with a light stroke of dream…
Beautiful and mysterious, proud and unpredictable… If these bright and charming women hadn’t met the famous people on their way, perhaps many masterpieces would never have come into being.
But why does it happen that a woman gives the creative person the happiness and suffering that are inspiration?
This series is about the muses of great poets, artists, and composers.
Contents:
François Boucher The Figurine from Versailles Jeanne Pompadour
Étienne Maurice Falconet When Winter Gives Tenderness Marie-Anne Collot
Francisco Goya The Art of Being Nearby Josefa Goya
The Greatest Temptation. Cayetana de Alba
George Romney From the Kitchen Boy to Lady Hamilton
Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder — Alexandra Pavlovna
The Little Suvorochka. Natalya Suvorova
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Appeared as a Consolation. Madeleine Chapelle
The Realest Frenchwoman
François Gérard The Embodiment of Femininity
A Crown for a Poor Creole. Joséphine de Beauharnais
Napoleon’s Polish Wife. Marie Walewska
George Dawe Divine Thy Face
Cleopatra from the Banks of the Neva
Voldemar Gau. A Russian Amazon. Nadezhda Durova
Only God and a Few Chosen Ones. Natalya Pushkina
Gustave Courbet And This Is a Mature Woman. Justine Binet
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Under the Arch of Life, Where Love and Death
Auguste Rodin Sinful Idyl. Camille Claudel
Auguste Renoir A Ray of Sunshine. Jeanne Somali
A Cozy Little Kitten. Alina Shariго
Édouard Manet Fearless Breakfast in the Grass
A Dream Is Life Itself. Gertha Marisot
Paul Gauguin By the Laws of a Completely Different World
Eva of This Paradise
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Nana from Moulin-Rouge
Pablo Picasso Madame Picasso
The Crying Woman
Amadeo Modigliani. Didn’t Want to Live Without Him
Henri Matisse Whatever They Say
Diego Rivera The Tree of Hope. Frida Kahlo
Salvador Dalí I Will Create a Myth of Us. Elena Dyakonova