Back again, DUers, your Friday Afternoon Challenge: “Shameless Hussies!”

[CTyankee]

Who are they and who painted them?

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[Generic Other]

1. #1 is Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Pre-Raphaelite. The painting is that wicked woman Lucerzia Borghia grinding some poison herbs.

[CTyankee]

2. yeaaah! She was something, wasn't she?

I love her golden hair...

[Generic Other]

3. # 5 is Vigee Lebrun

Painting of DuBarry the mistress of Louis XV.

[CTyankee]

8. good for you! That was a hard one!

Did you know about Lebrun?

[Generic Other]

11. My friend is a direct descendant and yaps my ear off about it all the time

She was certainly an unusual figure who lived in very interesting times.

[CTyankee]

14. good lord, do you live in CT?

The reason I ask is I had a boss once who claimed the same thing about Lebrun. Often.

[Generic Other]

16. My friend is from Arkansas

but she does go on about Vigee!

[Cleita]

4. #5 is Marie Antoinette, but I don't

remember the artist. #6 is I believe Venus by Titian. I am guessing though.

[CTyankee]

9. No Marie and no Titian, alas...

[Cleita]

28. LOL! It was a stab in the dark. n/t

[Generic Other]

5. Half a Manet in #3

The top hat. And he was probably sleeping with the model.

on edit:
getting the numbers mixed up

[CTyankee]

10. well, who was she...

[Generic Other]

15. She's the center of attention so she must be one of his courtesans

Not Olympia so must be Nana.

[CTyankee]

18. Yay for you! It is Nana...he was very good friend of Nana's creator...

[mithnanthy]

6. I think.....

....#2 is John Singer Sargent...I don't know the title. I love his work.

[CTyankee]

12. No, it precedes Sargent by more than a few years...

[jberryhill]

7. The one in #3 is painting herself

So it's a trick question.

But instead of shameless hussies, they all look like painted ladies one way or t'other.

And one or another of 'em looks like they was painted by that French guy - de la Crotch or however you say it.

[CTyankee]

13. Oh, you are referring to delacroix. Non, m'sieu...

[jberryhill]

48. Gesundheit!

[Generic Other]

17. #4 is Salome poking out John the Baptist's eye

I cannot even make a good guess as to the artist although Klimt comes to mind.

[CTyankee]

19. This one's hard...

[Generic Other]

20. Klimpt's friend then

He copies his style!

Argh. Why do you wage this art jihad against me????

[CTyankee]

22. Oh, my! It's not a jihad...more like a

final bluebook exam in art history...did you miss class that day?

[Generic Other]

23. I think he had a friend named Oscar

who was A. Schwarzenegger's dead Uncle's pet. In fact, he seems to have been the model for John the Baptist.

I cut up art for my collages. I should pay more attention to what I am misappropriating. I still go with Art Nouveau.

[CTyankee]

30. Hey, you were in class that day. You are right!

You knew enough to know he was a Klimpt contemporary!

Good on ya!

Oscar Kolkoshka it was...

[joeybee12]

21. #4 is Salome with the head of John The baptist

Can't think of the artist right now...

[Generic Other]

24. I think #2 I have cut out of an art book before

Oh snap! It's Lady Emma Hamilton the wife of Admiral Nelson and A SCANDALOUS WOMAN.

[Generic Other]

29. Oh yeah it was painted by Romney

I wonder if he made her sit on the roof of the carriage?

[CTyankee]

31. Yep, he painted her 50 or so times. He was obsessed...

the guy was some kind of freak. Mitt woulda been scandalized...this guy painted her bare breasts, ACK! OMG!

But tell me, how did you get to G. Romney and this painting? Just wondering...

[Generic Other]

34. I remembered her story

I watched the movie with Vivian Leigh. And the painting I had cut out of an art book. I didn't realize Romney painted her that often until I googled her name just now. But I remember reading about her "tableaus" where she posed in character in classical scenes in a most scandalous fashion for her day. She seems to have been beautiful and attracted men like moths to a flame.

[CTyankee]

35. "That Hamilton Woman"! What a great movie!

god, weren't Leigh and Olivier just beautiful?

And that final scene, where her voice over says "there was no 'then,' there was no 'after'. And she sinks to the floor...

Sad, wasn't it? She had his child but couldn't get anything for him in his will...

[CTyankee]

33. what gave THAT away for you?

it's so cute...

[Generic Other]

25. If I could get #6 I would sweep the competition off the field

Unfortunately, I have no clue. Except "a shameless hussy." Helen of Troy maybe.

[Generic Other]

26. Mary Magdalene

Now that's just a stupid guess.

[CTyankee]

36. it's not stupid, it's just not her...

[librechik]

27. Is # 4 Munch?

[CTyankee]

37. no, it's been guessed...Kolkoschko, a contemporary of Klimpt...which is why it resembles

Klimpt.

But I would say that Munch is in that time frame...

[CTyankee]

32. Anybody have a guess on #6?

some people say he didn't really paint it...go figure...

[Aerows]

38. This is probably a dumb guess

But it looks like Reubens. I couldn't tell you who she is, though, or say for certain it was Reubens.

I was reading a piece about the evolution of appreciating the female form, and this looked a lot like some of the images.

[CTyankee]

39. Hmmm....take a guess...

[Aerows]

40. Queen Elizabeth?

Am I getting warmer? And is it Reubens? I'm terrible at this stuff, but I like to participate because I learn a lot of things.

[CTyankee]

43. no, sorry...

did you mean Rubens?

[Honeycombe8]

41. Venus? nt

[CTyankee]

44. she looks like she could be, but it is not...unfortunately...

[Honeycombe8]

42. #2 - is it a van der meer?

I'm not sure of the spelling of his name. Van der Meer or something like that?

[CTyankee]

45. oh....no, were you thinking of Vermeer? It isn't him, tho...it is about 50 years earlier....

[Honeycombe8]

46. Oh, I just saw the other post above that says it's Lady Hamilton, by Romney.

Oh, well.

[CTyankee]

47. He had this thing about her, evidently. YOu should see all the paintings he did of her, in various

poses, dressed and not so dressed.

I gotta give it to her. She led her life.

Did she ever!!

[CTyankee]

49. Just posted the answers.

Here http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002499179