In 19th century Paris, the cards were stacked against women artists like Rosa Bonheur and Berthe Morisot. A new exhibition shows them painting against the odds, and could affect their market.

It studies the role of women in 19th-century Paris as seen through the eyes of such renowned artists as Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt and Rosa Bonheur, as well as some whose names might not be as ...

Activists in the 19th century also rallied for improvements to women’s education, a cause that is arguably reflected in Tissot’s The Newspaper (1883). The print features a woman peering at a ...

Ballantine mansion. An exhibit on Black women of the 19th Century is at the Ballantine House, a 19th Century beer mansion that's part of the Newark Museum of Art.

These angels are conceits, but placing their subjects among the seraphim is as natural to the 19th-century conception of virginal women as Cecilia Beaux’s portrait of the young Fanny Cochran ...

Behold, a woman fuming. Though she’s dressed in an opulent, fur-trimmed gown in a palatial French home sometime in the mid-19th century, her silent fury is recognizable to women the world over ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — For more than a century she has been known as the woman behind the throne, ... Rare art from China's 19th century woman ruler come to US. JOHN ROGERS.

W hy so many of the women artists who made their way to Paris in the late 19th century came from Scandinavia is an interesting question that an exhibition like this can’t answer; but it’s ...

Making Her Mark is an exhibition highlighting late nineteenth-century paintings, illustrations, books, and sculptures by Rhode Island women artists and their contributions to the modernity narrative.

The Library of Congress recently digitized rare 19th-century photographs of African American women active in suffrage, civil rights, temperance, education, reform, and journalism. by Allison Meier ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — For more than a century she has been known as the woman behind the throne, ... Rare art from China’s 19th century woman ruler come to US. John Rogers.