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Title: Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.

Author: Clara Erskine Clement

Release Date: April 15, 2004 [EBook #12045]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Alinari, Photo.

In the Bologna Gallery

THE INFANT CHRIST

ELISABETTA SIRANI]

WOMEN

IN THE FINE ARTS

FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B. C.

TO THE

TWENTIETH CENTURY A. D.

BY

CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT

1904

PREFATORY NOTE

As a means of collecting material for this book I have sent to many
artists in Great Britain and in various countries of Europe, as well as
in the United States, a circular, asking where their studies were made,
what honors they have received, the titles of their principal works, etc.

I take this opportunity to thank those who have cordially replied to my
questions, many of whom have given me fuller information than I should
have presumed to ask; thus assuring correctness in my statements, which
newspaper and magazine notices of artists and their works sometimes fail
to do.

I wish especially to acknowledge the courtesy of those who have given me
photographs of their pictures and sculpture, to be used as illustrations.

CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE INFANT CHRIST _Elisabetta Sirani_
In the Bologna Gallery. By permission of Fratelli Alinari.

A PORTRAIT _Elizabeth Gowdy Baker_

A PORTRAIT _Adelaide Cole Chase_
From a Copley print.

A CANADIAN INTERIOR _Emma Lampert Cooper_

ANGIOLA _Louise Cox_
From a Copley print.

DOROTHY _Lydia Field Emmet_
From a Copley print.

JUDITH WITH THE HEAD OF HOLOFERNES _Artemisia Gentileschi_
In the Pitti Gallery. By permission of Fratelli Alinari.

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD _