Women in veils 1880s-1930s

Pierre Auguste Renoir (French painter, 1841-1919) Madame Darras as a Horsewoman


Women have been wearing veils since at least the 13th century B.C. in Assyria. Classical Greek & Hellenistic statues sometimes depict Greek women with both their head & face covered by a veil.  Statues of Persian elite women from Persepolis show examples of some women wearing veils & some without.  Here are a few from the 19th & early 20th century, which I find fascinating.

 Emily Eastman (Loudon New Hampshire 1804-c 1841) Woman in Veil c 1825

Louis Anquetin (French artist, 1861–1932) Woman on the Champs-Elysees by Night 1890

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish artist, 1860-1920) In mourning, 1880

Louis Anquetin (French artist, 1861–1932) Two Woman 1892

Alice Pike Barney (American artist, 1857-1931) Self Portrait

Jozsef Rippl-Ronai (Hungarian artist, 1861-1927) Mme Mazet 1896

Mary Cassatt (American-born artist, 1844-1926) Woman Arranging Her Veil 1886

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French painter, 1841-1919), Jeune femme à la voilette

Louis Anquetin (French artist, 1861–1932) Woman with a Veil 1890

Edmund Tarbell (American painter, 1862-1938) The Blue Veil 1899

Joseph DeCamp (American artist, 1858-1923) Pink Feather Brown Veil 1908

Gustav Klimt (Austrian Symbolist painter, 1862-1918) Girl With Blue Veil, 1902

Edmund Tarbell (American painter, 1862-1938) Summer Breeze 1904

Gustave Van de Woestijne (Belgian artist, 1881-1947) Les deux printemps

Pierre Bonnard (French painter, 1867-1947) Woman in a Veil c 1917

Henri Matisse (French artist, 1919-1942)  The Spaniard 1928

Rudolf Wacker (Austrian painter, 1893 -1939) Ilse Wacker with Mask, 1925

Francis John Clarence Westenra Plantagenet Hastings (British artist 1901-1990) Untitled, 1934

 Thomas William Roberts (English-born Australian artist, 1856-1931) Portrait of Florence, 1898

Jean-Louis Forain (French artist, 1852-1931) Head of a Woman with a Veil

Henri Matisse (French artist, 1919-1942) Woman with a Veil

Alice Pike Barney (American artist, 1857–1931) Dream Book

Tamara de Lempicka (Polish Art Deco artist, Russia 1898–1980 Mexico) (Tamara Rosalia Gurwik-Gorska) La Couronne de Fleurs II, 1932

My favorite landscape from Jean Édouard Vuillard 1868-1940

Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940) Breton Landscape, Saint-Jacut

Swiss artist Félix Edouard Vallotton 1865-1925 paints traditional Portraits

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1884 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) The Artist's Mother

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1886 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Juliette Lacour

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1886 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) The Artist's Parents

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1892 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) The Invalid

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1902 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Workshop with my Wife

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1904 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) womn Reading at the Window

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1906 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Melot Martha wife of Alfred Natanson

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1907 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Gertrude Stein

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1908 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Gabrielle Valloton

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1908 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Mrs Hasen

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1909 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) At the Cafe

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1911 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Coquettery

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1911 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Seated Black Woman

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1911 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Young Woman with Yellow Scarf

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1912 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Children of Hans and Lisa Hanloser

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1913 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) The Yellow Sheet

Swiss artist Félix Edouard Vallotton 1865-1925 paints rather non-traditional andscapes

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1913 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) The Rising Tide

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1895 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Moonlight

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1915 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) the sheaves

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1921 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) View of Cagne from Horseback

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1922 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Part of the Town of Pont-Audemer

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1917 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Verdun

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1920 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Alyscamps morning sun

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1923 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) A Vallon Landscape

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1922 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) The Family of Trees

Félix Edouard Vallotton 1925 (Swiss artist, 1865-1925) Landscape Rocamadour

William Merritt Chase 1849-1916 - His daughter Alice

William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) My Daughter Alice Dieudonne Chase in the Mirror


William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) Mrs William Merritt Chase and Cosy (Daughter Alice Dieudonne Chase) 1895


William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) My Daughter Alice Dieudonne Chase 1898


William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) My Daughter Alice Dieudonne Chase 1902


William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) My Daughter Alice Dieudonne Chase 1902


William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) My Daughter Alice Dieudonne Chase, Shinnecock Hills 1902


William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) My Daughter Alice Dieudonne Chase with Russian Wolfhound 1903

And a few cats by Suzanne Valadon 1865-1938

Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) Two Cats

Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) Study of a cat in 1918

Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) Bouquet and a Cat 1919

Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) and Louison Raminou, 1920

Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) sitting on a cloth Raminou 1920

Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) Miss Lily Walton with Raminou 1922

Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) and Raminou pitcher with skin tones in 1932