46 works · Open access
A family-friendly selection of the strongest works above: renowned women artists and celebrated women of standing, every work rated G.
46 works
The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55
Calligraphy: "Happiness"
Empress Dowager Cixi · 18th–19th century
Study for "Young Girl in a Green Coat"
Berthe Morisot · ca. 1894
Histoire générale des insects de Suriname et de l'Eouope: Vol I, No. 55 - Poivre d'inde
Maria Sibylla Merian · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848)
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1789
Help Russia
Käthe Kollwitz · 1921
Edward Smith Stanley (1752–1834), Twelfth Earl of Derby, Elizabeth, Countess of Derby (Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, 1753–1797), and Their Son (Edward Smith Stanley, 1775–1851)
Angelica Kauffmann · ca. 1776
Seated Old Woman
Paula Modersohn-Becker · c. 1905
Dressing the Little Ones in the Garden
Suzanne Valadon · 1910
Vivien and Merlin
Julia Margaret Cameron · 1874
Sphacelaria cirrhosa
Anna Atkins · ca. 1853
Portrait of a Prelate
Lavinia Fontana · ca. 1580
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · 1785
Gustavus Hamilton (1710–1746), Second Viscount Boyne, in Masquerade Costume
Rosalba Carriera · 1730–31
Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750)
Rachel Ruysch · 1692
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Elisabetta Sirani · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Interior
Gwen John · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Study of Arms for "The Cadence of Autumn"
Evelyn De Morgan · 1905
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Edmonia Lewis · 1871
The Bouquet of Violets
Eva Gonzalès · ca. 1877–78
Without a Cloud
Sophie Gengembre Anderson · after 1870
Study for "Under the Window"
Kate Greenaway · 1878
Portrait of Gerard Edema
Mary Beale · ca. 1680
Self-portrait (recto); Study for a self-portrait (verso)
Marie Bracquemond · ca. 1870
Study of a Tree
Tina Blau · 1863
A Bouquet of Flowers
Clara Peeters · ca. 1612
Gilbert Stuart
Sarah Goodridge · ca. 1825
Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859)
Marie-Guillemine Benoist · 1802
Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868)
Marie-Denise Villers · 1801
Vase of Flowers and Conch Shell
Anne Vallayer-Coster · 1780
Botanical Study
Mary Delany · ca. 1772–82
Saint Margaret Pointing to Heaven, with a Globe Next to Her
Maria Clara Eimmart · 1693
Still Life with Birds and Fruit
Giovanna Garzoni · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Amagerpige
Elisabeth Baumann · 1853
To the Genius of Franklin
Marguerite Gérard · 1779
Clasped Hands of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Harriet Hosmer · 1853, cast after 1853
Peuplier plante par Thomas Paine and Le Pont des Sauvages, Point-Breeze (Poplar Tree Planted by Thomas Paine and The Native Bridge at Point Breeze, near Bordentown, New Jersey)
Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte · 1826
Fillette à l'Orange
Louise Catherine Breslau · 1899
Composition (Fjord)
Jacoba van Heemskerck · 1915-16
The Friend in Need, from "Illustrated London News"
Rebecca Solomon · April 23, 1859
Conversation Piece
Lilly Martin Spencer · ca. 1851–52
John Neal Tilton
Emma Stebbins · ca. 1865
Shock Dog (nickname for a dog of the Maltese breed)
Anne Seymour Damer · probably 1782
Study of a Crested Cockscomb (Celosia argentea cristata)
Alida Withoos · late 17th century
Housing, Conditions: United States. New Jersey. Newark: Housing Conditions in Newark, New Jersey: The health and safety of the inhabitants of a municipality may be menaced by laxness of neighboring communities.
Jessie Tarbox Beals · c. 1903
The Public Writer
Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot · 1825
