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Anna Mathilda McNeill in Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (Whistler’s Mother) James Abbott Whistler, 1871

Shushan Adoyan by Arshile Gorky, 1936

Cornelia Nobel in Woman I by Willem De Kooning, 1952

Ginevra de’ Pozzi by Guido Reni, 1612

Marguerite Merlet by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1860

Eugénie-Desirée Fournier by Édouard Manet, 1880

Ernestine Faivre by Georges Pierre Seurat, 1883

Marie-Francoise Oberson by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, 1838

Lucy Read by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1797

Laura Catherine Bjølstad by Edvard Munch, 1899

Countess Adèle Tapié de Celeyran by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1883

Katherine Kelso Johnston by Mary Cassat, 1878

Sophie Maurice by Franz Marc, 1902

Marie Soukupová by Egon Schiele, 1911

Anna Cornelia Carbentus by Vincent van Gogh, 1888

Alina Maria Chazal by Paul Gauguin, 1890

Anne Elisabeth Honorine Aubert by Paul Cézanne, 1866-67

Barbara Holper by Albrecht Dürer, 1490-93

Neeltgen Willemsdochter van Zuytbrouck by Rembrandt, 1630

Gemma Cervetto by Giorgio De Chirico, 1911

Elizabeth Griffiths Smith by Edward Hopper, 1916-20

Anne Mary Hill was the inspiration and model for Mother Tucking Children Into Bed by Norman Rockwell, 1921

María Picasso y López by Pablo Picasso, 1896

Laura in Mum by David Hockney, 1985

Lucie Brasch by Lucian Freud, 1983

María del Pilar Barrientos by Diego Rivera, circa 1904

Flora Angulo by Fernando Botero, 1990

Felipa Domenech Ferrés by Salvador Dalí, 1920

Julia by Andy Warhol, 1974

Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces, or rapes, Leda. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta. In the W.B. Yeats version, it is subtly suggested that Clytemnestra, although being the daughter of Tyndareus, has somehow been traumatized by what the swan has done to her mother. According to many versions of the story, Zeus took the form of a swan and raped or seduced Leda on the same night she slept with her husband King Tyndareus. In some versions, she laid two eggs from which the children hatched.In other versions, Helen is a daughter of Nemesis, the goddess who personified the disaster that awaited those suffering from the pride of Hubris.