My challenge for 2019 was to read books written by female authors, or in the case of the Odyssey, a female translator. I read 24 this year, and out of those these are my top favorites! I HIGHLY recommend any of them.

▪Cup. Place of origin: Bohemia Date: 2nd quarter of the 18th century Medium: Double glass with intermediate gold decor.

• Robe à l'Française.

Date: ca. 1770-1775

From “Figures of the Most Beautiful, Useful and Uncommon Plants Described in the Gardener’s Dictionary”, Philip Miller, 1755-1760.

Siège du palais des Tuileries le 10 août 1792 by J. Chéreau, circa 1792.

Paire de mules, Vers 1750.

Shoes

Date:1780s Culture:British Medium:silk Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Frederick Street Hoppin, 1963 Accession Number:C.I.63.7.6a, b

▪Notebook in the Form of a Tablet. Place of origin: France Authors: Master: Anonymous master Date: 1720-1730’s Medium: Tortoiseshell, gold, mother-of-pearl, fabric.

ab. 1754 Anton Raphael Mengs - Portrait of an English Gentleman

(Rhode Island School of Design Museum)

Miniature. Portraits of Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI, ca. 18/19th Century.

Buttons (beadwork, sablé). Set in metal. French (circa 1775).

Images and text information courtesy MFA Boston.

Franz Anton Maulbertsch
The Stoning of St. Stephen

oil on canvas, 35 x 20 cm, ca. 1782-83

New Testament, 1710. Silver on leather.

Still-life with pear and insects, 1765 by Justus Juncker (German, 1703–1767)

Louis Ducros

Grotto and fountain in the old city of Manduria 1778

Rijksmuseum

A portrait of Archduke Francis (The future Francis II) at the age of 2, by Anton Raphael Mengs.

A portrait of the comte d'Artois and Madame Clotilde by François-Hubert Drouais, 1763.

1749 Unknown painter - József Sáky 

(Hungarian National Museum)

Margravine Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel Johann Heinrich Tischbein c. 1773

Girl Sleeping by Candle Light by follower of Godefridus (Godfried) Schalcken