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Con la rosa tra le labbra (With the rose between her lips) (1895) by Ettore Tito (Italian, 1859 – 1941), oil on panel, 25.4 cm (10 in) x 41.4 cm (16.2 in), Private Collection

Still Life with Roses and Decorative Elephant (detail), Marie Nyl-Frosch 

Gaston Bussière (detail)

Reclining Partial Nude or Nude on the Sofa (n/d) by Alfred Stevens (Belgian, 1823 – 1906), oil on canvas, 62.3 cm x 89.9 cm (24 1/2 in x 35 1/4 in), Private Collection

She is the poem - June Bates

Hylas and the Water Nymphs (c. 1909) by Henrietta Rae (British, 1856 – 1928), signed bottom right ‘Henrietta Rae’, oil on canvas, 142.3 cm (56 in) x 222.8 cm (87.7 in), Private Collection

Woman Bitten by a Serpent (Femme piquée par un serpent) (1847) by Auguste Clésinger (French, 1814 – 1883), Carrara marble, 5 cm x 180 cm x 70 cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris

The soul breaking the bonds that attach to the land by Pierre Paul Prud'hon (between 1821 and 1823)

by Nikolai Bodarevsky

Les Baigneuses (The Bathers), (Detail), (1892), by Armand Point (French, 1861 –1932), oil on canvas, 99.7 x 80.6 cm (39.3 x 31.7 in), Private Collection

Young woman reading (also known as A Young Girl Reading) (19th century) by Victor-Gabriel Gilbert (French, 1847 – 1933), oil on canvas, 54.5 × 65.5 cm (21.5 x 25.8 in), Private Collection