Flashcards: Artists' models

Charlotte Berend-Corinth (25 May 1880 – 10 January 1967) was a female German painter and artist in the Berliner Secession.

Margarita Luti (also Margherita Luti or La Fornarina, "the baker's daughter") was the mistress and model of Raphael.

Phryne (/ˈfraɪni/; Ancient Greek: Φρύνη) (born c. 371 BC) was an ancient Greek courtesan (hetaira), from the fourth century BC.

Jane Morris (née Jane Burden; 19 October 1839 – 26 January 1914) was an English artists' model who embodied the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty.

Luisa, Marchesa Casati Stampa di Soncino (23 January 1881 – 1 June 1957), also known as Luisa Casati, was an Italian heiress, muse, and patroness of the arts in early 20th-century Europe known for her eccentricities.

Hendrickje Stoffels (1626 – 21 July 1663) was the longtime lover of Rembrandt.

Marie-Louise O'Murphy (also variously called Mademoiselle de Morphy, La Belle Morphise, Louise Morfi or Marie-Louise Morphy de Boisfailly; 21 October 1737 – 11 December 1814), was one of the lesser mistresses (petites maîtresses) of King Louis XV of France, and a model for the famous painting of François Boucher.

Misia Sert (born Maria Zofia Olga Zenajda Godebska; March 30, 1872 – October 15, 1950) was a pianist of Polish descent who hosted an artistic salon in Paris.

Olga, the Baroness de Meyer (8 August 1871 – 1930/1931) was a British-born artists' model, socialite, patron of the arts, writer, and fashion figure of the early 20th century.

Fanny Cornforth (3 January 1835 – 24 February 1909) was an Englishwoman who became the artist's model and mistress of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Ida Lvovna Rubinstein (Russian: И́да Льво́вна Рубинште́йн; 5 October [O.S. 21 September] 1883 – 20 September 1960) was a Russian ballet dancer, actress, patron and Belle Époque figure.

Jane Avril (9 June 1868 – 17 January 1943) was a French can-can dancer made famous by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec through his paintings.

Camille Doncieux (15 January 1847 – 5 September 1879) was the first wife of French painter Claude Monet.

Valentine de Saint-Point (born Anna Jeanne Valentine Marianne Glans de Cessiat-Vercell; 16 February 1875, Lyon - died 28 March 1953, Cairo), was a woman of letters and a French artist.

Rosina Ferrara (1861–1934) was an Italian girl from the island of Capri, who became the favorite muse of American expatriate artist John Singer Sargent.

Guadalupe Marín (October 16, 1895 – 1983), born María Guadalupe Marín Preciado, was a model and novelist, born in Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, Mexico.

Olga Picasso, Olga Stepanovna Khokhlova (Ukrainian: О́льга Степа́нівна Хохло́ва, Russian: О́льга Степа́новна Хохло́ва, June 17, 1891 – February 11, 1955) was a Ukrainian ballet dancer, but better known as the first wife of Pablo Picasso and the mother of his son, Paulo.

Dagny Juel-Przybyszewska (8 June 1867 – 5 June 1901) was a Norwegian writer, famous for her liaisons with various prominent artists, and for the dramatic circumstances of her death.

Joanna "Jo" Hiffernan (ca. 1843 – after 1903) was an Irish artists' model and muse who was romantically linked with American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler and French painter Gustave Courbet.

Helena Fourment or Hélène Fourment (11 April 1614 – 15 July 1673) was the second wife of Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens.

Isabella Brant (or Brandt; 1591– July 15, 1626) was a Flemish artists' model who was the first wife of painter Peter Paul Rubens.

Kitty Fisher (1741–1767) was a prominent British courtesan.

Catherine-Rosalie Gerard Duthé (1748–1830, alt: Duthe or Du The) was a celebrated French courtesan.

Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau (née Avegno, 29 January 1859 – 25 July 1915) was born in New Orleans but grew up from the age of eight in France, where she became a Parisian socialite known for her beauty.

Violante is an oil painting attributed to Titian, dated to around 1515 and now held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

Olga Desmond (born Olga Sellin 2 November 1890 in Allenstein in East Prussia (now Olsztyn, Poland); died 2 August 1964 in Berlin) was a German dancer and actress.

Anne Françoise Élisabeth Lange (17 September 1772 – 25 May 1816, Florence) was a French actress of the Comédie-Française and a 'Merveilleuse' of the French Directory.

Valeska Gert (11 January 1892 – circa 16 March 1978) was a German Jewish dancer and cabaret artist.

Vera Cuningham (also known as Vera Cunningham) (6 November 1897 – 3 May 1955) was a British artist.

Rose Lindsay (1885-1978), née Rosa Soady, was an Australian artist's model, author, and printmaker.