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.

New Testament, 1710. Silver on leather.

Franz Anton Maulbertsch
The Stoning of St. Stephen

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

Louis Ducros

Grotto and fountain in the old city of Manduria 1778

Rijksmuseum

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

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

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

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

1749 Unknown painter - József Sáky 

(Hungarian National Museum)

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