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Gertrude Peschke, nee Schiele, 1909. A Muse of both her brother, Egon Schiele, and husband, Anton Peschka.

Magdalena, Artemisia Gentileschi, Uffizi Gallery

Madonna, details from Bernardino Luini’s The Christ Child Asleep, 1510.

Lost In Dreams, Friedrich von Amerling, 1855, Garten Palais Liechtenstein

Sophie of Bavaria and archduchess of Austria. Sissi’s aunt and mother in law and Franz Josef’s mum, by Karl Joseph Stieler (1832), Nymphenburg Palace.

Penelope, Charles-François Marchal (1868)

Bamboo and Rock, Yamamoto Baiitsu, first half 19th century

Artist unknown.

Maud, George Elgar Hicks (1882)

She told about herself, “I am free and independent. My mistakes are my mistakes. My success is my success. I believe in myself, I do everything alone and don’t make a tragedy of it.” She was out of place in her time. She died young, only 45 years old, and beautiful." x

Hans Makart.

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. “Young Peasant Woman with Three Children at the Window” (1840)

Shōda Kōhō.