Rosa Bonheur—Practice Makes Perfect

Guest post by Ien G.M. van der Pol, Fem Art Collection To mark the bicentenary of the birth of Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899), Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux and Musée d’Orsay in Paris collaborated to organize an exhibition in her honor. Bordeaux was too far away but on...

Thérèse Schwartze (1851–1918)

A celebrated portraitist returns to Delft Guest post by Ien G.M. van der Pol, www.ienvanderpol.nl Thérèse Schwartze, Self-portrait, with black hat and glasses, 1917, paper, 55.1 × 47.4 cm; Rijksmuseum This exhibition of the work of a celebrated nineteenth-century...