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@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 12:23 PM

Andaleeb Banta's #ArtHerstory guest post "Barbara Regina Dietzsch: Enlightened Flower Painter" offers insights into Dietzsch's works & also her working methods -
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@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 12:23 PM

Filled poppy, C18th, by #BarbaraReginaDietzsch (German, 1706-83), who was born #otd, Sept 22. Held by Kunsthalle Bremen, onlinekatalog.kunsthalle-bremen.de/DE-MUS-02761... #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory

A stalk of pink filled (double) poppy, showing one flower in full blossom and one bud, against a dark background. On a leaf at lower left is a yellow butterfly; at the top right, a winged insect of some kind hovers in the dark corner.

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 12:23 PM

A drawing of a daffodil, 1772, by #CatharinaBacker (Dutch, 1689-1766), who was born #otd, Sept 22. Held by @amsterdammuseum.bsky.social, am.adlibhosting.com/Details/muse... #womenartists #artherstory

A drawing in red chalk of a single daffodil with its stem and leaves, on a piece of paper with a wrinkled top right corner.

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 12:55 PM

Still Life with Fruit and Flowers, C17th, by #CatherineDuchemin (later Girardon; French, 1630-1698), who died #otd, Sept 21. Held at the Museé des beaux-arts de Chambéry; source, pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/jocon... #artherstory #womenartists

A dark painting of a bunch of green grapes on a surface with two peaches and some pink roses - one flower hanging off the front of the surface, from under a peach, and two flowers toward the back right, behind the second peach.

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 12:45 PM

Madonna & Child, 1575–80, by #BarbaraLonghi (Italian, 1552-c. 1638), who was born #otd, Sept 21. Held by the Art Gallery of Ontario, ago.ca/events/close... #artherstory #womenartists

A painting in an elaborate frame depicting a bust-length Madonna nursing the Christ Child, who turns his face over his left shoulder so that the viewer has a 3/4 view of his face. The protagonists are in an interior, before a dark green backdrop and a fringed red canopy or slight overhang. In the upper right of the painting is a window or wall opening through which the viewer sees some landscape, a building in the distance, and a whitish sky.

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 6:51 PM

Butterfly and wasp near grapes, C18th, by #JacobaMariaVanNickelen (Dutch, c. 1680/90-1749; #JacobaMariaVanNikelen, #JacobaVanNickelen), who died #otd, Sept 20. Held by Städel Museum, sammlung.staedelmuseum.de/en/work/butt... #womenartists #artherstory

A painting of a bunch of green grapes - with leaves and a piece of cut vine - sitting on a small purple-draped table. In front of the grapes is the half of some kind of nut (walnut?). A wasp hovers over the grapes at about the middle of the painting. At the upper right, a butterfly alights on a grape, toward the back of the bunch.

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 6:14 PM

Flower Still Life, 2nd half of C17th, by #MargheritaCaffi (also #MargaritaCaffi, née Volò; Italian, c. 1650-1710), who died #otd, Sept 20. Held by the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, www.khm.at/en/artworks/... #artherstory #womenartists

A fairly dark painting of two groups of floral arrangements. At the left are numerous pink flowers, probably roses. At right is an arrangement of red flowers grouped with some smaller white flowers.

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 5:02 PM

The Baptism of #SaintEustace, 1578, engraved by #DianaScultori (Italian, before 1530-after 1588) after Federico Zuccaro. Private collection? Source, onlineonly.christies.com/s/old-master... #artherstory #womenartists #FeastofStEustace #StEustace

An etching depicting a bearded cleric pouring water from a small basin or pitcher, over a man who kneels on the ground before him. Opposite the man is a woman, also kneeling, with her arms crossed over her breast. Between them are two naked toddlers. On either side are two boys or young men in robes, presumably helping the cleric. The boy at left holds a jar with both hands. The boy at right holds a book open, with the pages facing out.

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 4:20 PM

Self-portrait at the age of 12, painting the portrait of her teacher Johannes Sulzer, 1691, by #AnnaWaser (Swiss, 1678-1714), who died #otd, Sept 20. Held by Kunsthaus Zurich, collection.kunsthaus.ch/en/collectio... #artherstory #womenartists

A painting of a young white skinned girl painting a miniature portrait on an easel. She wears a dress under a red skirt, with a patterned front, and a black collar and a close-fitting black cap that covers her ears and descends in a V in the middle of her forehead. Her right elbow is bent such that her hand, holding a paint brush, rises toward the work on the easel (she's painting a bust-length portrait of a man). Her left elbow is bent so that she can easily reach the palette she holds with her left hand (only her thumb is visible, through the hole in the palette). Her left hand also holds a clutch of 4 or 5 brushes. In the upper right corner is a coat of arms. Under it, in gold paint, is the artist's signature, which reads, "Durch An(n)a Waser v(on) Zürich / im 12. Jar ihres Alters gemalt / Anno 1691."

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 6:59 PM

Announcing #ArtHerstory's 2026 holiday card!

This year's edition is a Christmas card that reproduces "Adoration of the Magi," by Fede Galizia (c. 1578–c. 1630), held at Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte.

The 10-card boxed set is available via our Etsy store - etsy.me/4ygc3wU

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 1:12 PM

The Encounter of David & Abigail, 1673, by #JeanneVergouwen ( #JohannaVergouwen, #JoannaVergouwen; Flemish, 1630-1714) who was baptized #otd, Sept 19; after Peter Paul Rubens. Held by Museo Nacional de San Carlos; source, pic.x.com/kTCFAgAlyo #womenartists #artherstory

A painting of an encounter in a landscape between a group of 6 unarmed people, mostly women, at left, kneeling; and a group of soldiers at right. In just about the middle of the painting is David, depicted from the side, wearing a red cloak, holding a staff in his right hand, his sword visible at his left hip.

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 9:13 PM

Portrayals of Mary Magdalene by Early Modern Women Artists
by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona for the #ArtHerstory blog
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@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 3:22 PM

Prized Gertrude Abercrombie Painting, Priced at $30 at an Estate Sale, Heads to Auction for $250,000
by Tessa Solomon for ARTNews
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@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 1:22 PM

"Liber Divinorum Operum" I.4, MS 1942, fol. 38r, early C13th, original by #HildegardofBingen ( #HildegardvonBingen, German, C12th). Held by Biblioteca Statale di Lucca; source, www.hildegard-society.org/p/liber-divi... #nuntastic #womenartists #artherstory #FeastofStHildegard #StHildegard

This illustration, a later copy of a C12th artwork, has a distinct circular or "mandala" shape, superimposed over a narrow vertical gold rectangle with a thicker decorative border with repeating acanthus leaves in blue and white inside of a much narrower reddish-orange straight-line border. The blue and white border is covered over at the left and right edges of the work by the central mandala. Just inside the acanthus-leaf border is a slim green colored border, which terminates at the left middle edge of the drawing in a snake’s head. The inner drawing features concentric circles, within the largest band of which stylized trees punctuate the landscape, while six human figures interact within the divinely ordered natural space, resting or engaging in various acts of farming. An outer band—the outer portion in solid blue, the inner portion with wavy white lines against the same blue-colored background—is decorated at its edges with various kinds of fish. Inside the lower left corner, inserted between the acanthus-leaf border and the mandala, is a small rectangular drawing within an internal rectangular frame of a woman seated in a chair behind a tilted stand, on which sit two tablets side by side.

@artherstory.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 1:26 PM

Double Bee Larkspur / Delphinium elatum, c. 1820, by #CarolineMariaApplebee (English, c.1787-1854), who died #otd, Sept 16. Held by @rhslibrary.bsky.social, collections.rhs.org.uk/view/1488/do... #hernaturalhistory #womenartists #artherstory

A watercolor drawing of a plant with deep blue flowers with a couple of layers of petals. At left is a sprig of flowers about to blossom. In the middle is a sprig of 6 full blossoms. At right is an enlarged example of a leaf from the plant.