“Marianne Stokes, Madonna and Child, 1907 #WomensArt”

Monet. Degas. Renoir. Manet. Toulouse-Lautrec. They're some of the best known impressionists. They're also all men. Women artists in nineteenth century Paris faced an uphill battle in pursuing their craft.

Homeless by Marianne Stokes

‘Garlic Seller’ was created in 1909 by Marianne Stokes in Art Nouveau (Modern) style. Find more prominent pieces of portrait at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.

Saint Elizabeth Working for the Poor - Marianne Preindelsberger Stokes

When I was poking around looking at Symbolist painters recently, I came across Marianne Stokes' meditative portrait of Melisande (from the Maeterlinck play Pelleas and Melisande , which Debussy adapted into an opera). Stokes was not herself a Symbolist, and the Wikipedia article says she started…