Art Herstory is excited to announce four new note card designs! Two artists—Anne Vallayer-Coster and Giovanna Garzoni—make a repeat appearance in our stationery line. And with this new batch of note cards, we introduce a “new” early modern woman artist: Alida Withoos.
With these additions, there are now 29 Art Herstory note card designs. The cards feature paintings by 18 female artists of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. An innovation with this new set is that each has a QR code on the back to bring interested readers directly to the Art Herstory resource page for the artist in question.
Some of the 2025 cards come from art sources that are new for Art Herstory. The Cleveland Museum of Art is the custodian of an oil painting and a watercolor on vellum that we present in note card form. Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo, Norway holds a drawing that now graces an Art Herstory card. And we are once again in the debt of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. We are grateful to all of these institutions for their liberal permissions and/or art-sharing policies. Now, to introduce the 2025 line-up (in alphabetical order by artist’s last name):
Giovanna Garzoni, Still Life with Birds and Fruit
This new note card reproduces Giovanna Garzoni’s Still Life with Birds and Fruit. It does not represent the artist’s first appearance in Art Herstory’s note card line: our reproduction of her Still Life with Bowl of Citrons is among the Art Herstory note card offerings issued in 2020. But with this card—and one other included in this list of 2025 issues—the Cleveland Museum of Art is for the first time represented in the Art Herstory line. Read about the artwork at the object page on the museum’s website. We thank the Cleveland Museum of Art for its open access policy for art in the public domain, and for sharing online the high-resolution digital art files for such works.
Anne Vallayer-Coster, Still Life with Flowers in an Alabaster Vase and Fruit
This card represents Anne Vallayer-Coster’s second appearance in the Art Herstory line, the first being our Portrait of a Violinist card (original painting held at Nationalmuseum). But it is the fourth Art Herstory card to reproduce a work held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, which owns the original art our new card reproduces. The museum acquired the painting Still Life with Flowers in an Alabaster Vase and Fruit in 2023. It is the first painting by the artist to enter the National Gallery’s collection. According to the acquisitions statement, “Vallayer-Coster herself considered it her finest painting, and she kept it until her death. Lost for nearly 200 years, this extraordinary work was recently rediscovered in an almost pristine state of preservation…”
Anne Vallayer-Coster, Basket of Plums
And the new Basket of Plums note card brings the total number of Anne Vallayer-Coster cards in the Art Herstory line to three! At the same time, it brings the number of cards representing a work from the Cleveland Museum of Art collection to two. Read about the still life painting at the object page on the museum’s website. Read more about the artist in Kelsey Brosnan’s Art Herstory guest post. Kelsey’s book about the artist is forthcoming in Spring 2026; stay tuned to Art Herstory for more details.
Alida Withoos, Monkshood in Bloom
Our new Monkshood in Bloom card introduces a new artist and a new museum to the Art Herstory line. The artist is 17th-century Dutch still life painter and botanical illustrator Alida Withoos; read about her at our new Alida Withoos resource page. The museum that holds the original drawing—and generously allows that “all works not labeled with copyright can be reproduced and published freely”—is Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo, Norway. The museum’s collection is rich in work by historic women artists, including three paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi.
New Art Herstory 6-pack samplers
With these new cards, Art Herstory offers three new pre-packaged 6-pack sampler options:
Art Herstory reiterates its appreciation of the generosity of the individuals and institutions who freely share with the public the digital art files of artworks they hold. We hope the artworks reproduced on these new Art Herstory cards appeal to you, and that they inspire you to learn more about the artists who created them. Visit the online shop to purchase individual cards or pre-designed 6-packs. And as always, we offer customers the option of designing their own custom 3- or 6-packs.
More posts about Art Herstory cards
The Art Herstory 2024 Holiday Card: Madonna and Child, c. 1909
The Art Herstory 2023 Holiday Card: Christmas Roses
Announcing Art Herstory’s 2022 Holiday Card: American Holly
New Art Herstory Note Card Designs for 2022
Art Herstory’s First Botanical Holiday Card
Art Herstory Adds Five New Note Card Designs for Spring 2021!
