It’s Pride Month!
Well, at least in most of the world. New Zealand celebrates pride in February, March, April, and starting June/July to cooincide with Matariki: the Māori New Year.
I firmly believe that it is everyone’s fundamental human right to be able to safely love, live with, and marry any consenting adult who feels the same way about them, and that it is everyone’s fundamental human right to be safely and respectfully acknowledged as the gender they identify with, legally and socially.
And I also think that clothes are clothes! They don’t have gender. Wear the clothes that make you happy, whatever they are!
To celebrate Pride, here’s a rainbow of Ninon Bodice inspiration. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷
And a little easter egg… 😜
Red
Portrait of Josina Parduyn (1642-1718) 1668, Caspar Netscher
Caspar Netscher, Portrait of a Woman; 1671, Glasgow Museums, http://www.artuk.org/artworks/portrait-of-a-woman-85503
Adriaen Hanneman, Portrait of Amalia von Hesse-Kassel 1656
Princess Eleonore of Palatinate-Neuburg, the later Empress of Austria, 1670s
Willem van Honthorst, Albertina Agnes van Nassau, 1653
Caspar Netscher (attr); Portrait of an Unknown Lady with a Lamb and a Terracotta Group; ca. 1670, National Trust, Ascott; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/portrait-of-an-unknown-lady-with-a-lamb-and-a-terracotta-group-216767
Orange
Jacob Ferdinand Voet, Portrait of Pietro Banchieri dressed as a ‘belle’, 1671
Sir Peter Lely, Margaret Brooke, Lady Denham, a. 1664, (Sheffield Museums)
Cornelius Johnson (1593-1661), Portrait of an Unknown Lady; 1659, Tate; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/unknown-lady-199531
Sir Peter Lely, Elizabeth Wriothesley, Countess of Northumberland, 1662, (c) National Trust, Petworth House; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation
Antonio Triva, Portrait of Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy (1636-1676), wife of Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (1636-1679), ca. 1660
Samuel van Hoogstraten, Possible portrait of Anne Conway (detail)
British School, 18th Century, Woman Resting Arm on a Pillow, c1650
Yellow
Jan Mijtens (The Hague c. 1614-1670), Portrait of Henriette Catherina van Oranje-Nassau (1637-1708), small three-quarter-length, in a yellow dress at a fountain with a spaniel | Christie’s
Circle of Gerrit van Honthorst, Portrait of a girl, traditionally identified as Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (1631–1660) ca. 1660
Portrait possibly of Madame de Hautefort (1616 – 1691), ca 1650
Portrait of Maria Antonia of Austria, ca. 1665
Sir Peter Lely, Lady Elizabeth Wilbraham ca 1670
Green
Jacob Ferdinand Voet, Portrait of Maria Ortensia Biscia del Drago late 1670s
John Michael Wright (1617 – 1694) A portrait of Lady Herries, ca. 1665
1670 British (Scottish) School, Portrait of Margaret Erskine, National Trust for Scotland, House of Dun c1670
Portrait of Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Duchess of Orléans (1652-1722), Duchess of Orléans c1675
Bartholomeus van der Helst, Portrait of Sophia Coymans, ca. 1660
Blue & Indigo
Abraham van den Tempel, Portrait of a Young Woman, 1666, Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel,
Sir Peter Lely, Portrait of Dudleia Cullum, née North, Lady Cullum, circa 1670. Courtesy of the collections of the St Edmundsbury Museums
Abraham van den Tempel, Portrait of Jacquemijna Le Pla, circa 1666
L. Schunemann – Portrait of a young Lady in blue dress, probably Hedvig Eleonora later Queen of Sweden 1666
Attributed to Charles Beaubrun, Portrait of a Lady called Jeanne de Marign, 1660
Jan Mijtens, Portrait of a Lady as Diana, ca 1660
Sir Peter Lely, Portrait of a Lady in Blue holding a Flower, ca 1660
Isaack Luttichuy, Portrait of a woman, possibly Susanna Reael (d 1662), 1656
Caspar Netscher; Portrait of a Lady Playing a Viola da Gamba; National Trust, Hatchlands; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/portrait-of-a-lady-playing-a-viola-da-gamba-217293
Violet & Pink
Portrait of Anne-Geneviève de Bourbon (1619-1679), wife of Henri II d’Orléans, Duke of Longueville (1595-1663), ca 1660
Sir Peter Lely; Katherine Ashe (1652-1729), Mrs William Windham I, ca 1670; National Trust, Felbrigg Hall; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/katherine-ashe-16521729-mrs-william-windham-i-171331
François Duchatel, A family portrait in an architectural setting, traditionally identified as members of the Janssens family (detail), 1672
Catherine Dormer, daughter of Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey (d. 1659), 1659
Portret of Anna van Cammingha (1641-1712), ca 1670, – S01913 – Fries Museum Julius de Geest – Netherlands Institute for Art History
J Stusermans, 1660 Catherine of Braganza, ca 1660
Jacob Ferdinand Voet (attr), Portrait of Ortensia Mancini, Duchess of Mazzarin 1676-80
Cornelis Janson van Ceulen (II), Portrait of Aletta Pater, 1662, Centraal Museum 18045
Jan de Baen, Princess Henrietta-Anne ‘Minette’ (1644-1670), Duchess of Orleans, ca 1668, National Trust, Hatchlands; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/princess-henrietta-anne-minette-16441670-duchess-of-orleans-217380
Pierre Mignard Lady in the Park, 1660s
Workshop of Henri and Charles Beaubrun, Portrait of Louise Boyer (1632-1697), wife of Anne de Noailles (a.1613-1678), 1660s