Keyword: Women – Image Gallery
Tobiolus makes a Propitiatory Sacrifice, from The Story of Tobias (1543)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1495)
from: Raoul Le Fèvre: Recueil des histoires de Troie (Belgium)
Paris, BnF, Français 22552, fol. 227
Virgin in Glory (1590-1600)
Museu de São Roque, Lisbon
Iefté, Principe del pueblo ysraelitico [...] [1580 - 1583]
Bibliothèque National de France, Paris
Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1723 - 1743)
from: Picart, Bernard; Bernard, Jean Frederic. Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World, 1723-1743
Abbruciamento delle mogli vedove (1740-56)
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Immolation of a Hindoo Widow (1814)
from: Lester. The Gallery of Nature and Art, 1814
London, Wellcome Collection
Scene of a sati. In the foreground, a widowed woman (encountered by Della Valle on November 12, 1623) on horseback holds a mirror and a lemon amidst a crowd. In the background, a woman throws herself into the flames of a funeral pyre (1665)
from: Della Valle, Pietro, De volkome beschryving der voortreffelijke reizen van de deurluchtige reisiger Pietro della Valle, edelman van Romen, in veel voorname gewesten des werrelts, sedert het jaer 1615, tot in 't jaar 1626 gedaan. Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1666, vol. 5, pag. 163
Sacrifice of Iphigenia [1640 - 1642]
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Tobiolus Makes a Propitiatory Sacrifice (1543)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Suttee Pillar at a Benares Burning Ghat (19th century)
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The Sacrifice of Polyxena (ca 1470-1475)
from: The Florentine Picture-Chronicle' page from the album (recto of 1889,0527.58): Pyrrhus (Neoptolemos) sacrificing Polyxena on the tomb of his father Achilles
British Museum, London
Burning of a Hindu Widow at Her Husband’s Funeral Pyre (1666?)
from: Banerjee, P. Burning Women, New York, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003, p. 87
Manner in which they Bury Themselves (1728)
from: Picart, B. Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses des Peuples Idolatres, tome II, Amsterdam, 1728
London, Wellcome Collection
Veuve hindoue allant au bucher (1797)
from: Abdul-Kerym, Voyage de l'Inde a la Mekke, ca. 1797
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Suttee. Gouache painting by a painter of Thanjavur (Tanjore) [1800]
from: Tanjore
London, Wellcome Collection
Woman Going to Burn (1811)
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Ladies of Krishna's Harem are Shown the Sacrificial Horse (1598)
from: Razmnama Mughal
Oriental and India Office Collection, British Library, London
A Gentoo Woman Burning Herself (1770)
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The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (17th Century)
Royal Collection Trust, London
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (17 - 18)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Femmes Benjanoises brulees (1725)
from: van der Aa, P. La galerie agreable du monde. Tome premier des Indes Orientales, Leiden, c. 1725
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The sacrifice of Polyxena [1737]
Staatsgalerie, Würzburg
Sacrifice of Lystra (1515)
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Satī. The bride immolates herself on the funeral pyre (1657)
from: Isfahan, Iran
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Jephte sacrifices his daughter (1493)
from: Cest le mirouer de la redempcion humaine (GW M4304210), Fol, f4r [Paris]
Stabi, Berlin
Satī, from a Sūz u Gudāz manuscript. The union of the couple on the pyre (1657)
from: Sūz u Gudāz ms, Iran, Walters Manuscript W. 649, fol. 19b (Burning and Melting)
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
Funerailles des Femmes Benjanoises (1725)
from: van der Aa, P. La galerie agreable du monde. Tome premier des Indes Orientales, Leiden, c. 1725
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The Fatal Sacrifice (18th Century)
Wellcome Collection, London
Les femmes Indiennes se brulent (1725)
from: van der Aa, P. La galerie agreable du monde. Tome premier des Indes Orientales, Leiden, c. 1725
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Hindoo Woman throwing herself (19th century?)
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Satī. Gentile women of the caste of the cattle drivers, who is buried alive with her husband after he had died [1540]
Codice Casanatense, Biblioteca Casanatense, ms. 1889, fol. 64r, Rome
Jephthah’s Daughter (16th Century)
Royal Collection Trust, London
Favorite Wife of Sevajee (1851)
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Hindoo Widow Burning Herself with the Corpse of the Husband (1820)
from: Shoberl, F. The World in Miniature: Hindoostan, London, Ackerman, 1820s
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Suicide of a Woman on an Altar (1532)
from: Francesco Petrarca, Von der Artzney bayder Glück, des guten vnd widerwertigen: unnd weß sich ain yeder inn Gelück und Unglück halten sol; auß dem Lateinischen in das Teutsch gezogen, Augspurg, Steyner, 1532, p. clviii
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Indian Woman Burning Alive (18th century)
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Sacrifice of Iphigenia (17th Century)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Veuve indouve hallant (1825)
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Woman Throwing Herself in the Pyre (1699)
from: Banerjee, P. Burning Women, New York, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003, p. 94
La figliuola di Iefte all'altare per esser sacrificata (18th Century)
Convento dei Canonici Lateranensi - Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Berenice offers her hair to Venus [1662 - 1663]
Palazzo Reale, Turin
The sacrifice of Polyxena [1732 - 1733]
Getty Museum, Getty Villa, Malibù
Levitici, Cap. XII, v. 6-s, Purperae Sacrificium (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCLXVII
Sutteeism on the Banks of the Ganges (1860)
from: Montgomery Martin, R. The Indian Empire, c.1860
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Olimpia (18th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Il sacrificio di Ifigenia [1632 - 1633]
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon
The Sacrifice of Polyxena (1667)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Ifigenia Treuspel (1715)
from: Racine. Jean. Ifigenia in Aulis, treurspel, Amsterdam, Jacob Lescailje, 1715, Frontespiece
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia [1710-1720]
Musée de l'Histoire de France, Versailles
Iphigenia Sacrifice (16 - 17)
Unknown
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1755)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Idolatres (1685)
from: Allain Manesson Mallet, Description de l'Univers, , contenant les differents systêmes du monde, les cartes générals et particulières de la géographie ancienne et modern. Vol.: De l'Asie.
Sacrifice of Jephthah (1461)
from: Speculum humanae salvationis (Belgium)
Lyon. Bibliothèque municipale, Ms 245, fol. 125
Suttee, with Lord Hastings shown as accepting bribes to allow its continuation (1815)
London, Wellcome Collection
Handprints left by the wives of the maharaja before the Sati [1843]
Mehrangarh Fort, Rajasthan, India
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1789)
Palazzo Gnudi Scagliarini, Bologna
Scene of sacrifice [1721 - 1722]
Palazzo Reale, Turin
The sacrifice of Polyxena (1625)
Roma, Musei Capitolini
A Gentoo Burning Herself (1783)
from: The Geographical Magazine, London, Harrison & Co., 1783
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Ifigenia libens collum submitte securi; Non aliter, quando Troia perire potest (1713)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Sacrifice of Iphigenia (18th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Woman Thown into the Pyre (1563)
from: Banerjee, P. Burning Women, New York, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003, p. 99
the young Hindu woman accompanies her bridegroom's coffin to the funeral pyre and decides to commit sati (1657)
from: Walters manuscript W.649 (Burning and Melting)
The Walters Art Museum
Numer., Cap. V, v. 17, 26-28 (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCXCIII
Sacrifice of Iphigenia [1602 - 1607]
from: Salsmann, Wilhelm. P. Ovid Nasonis XV Metamorphoseon librorvm figurae elegantissime a Cr[i]spiano Passaeo laminis aeneis incisae: quibus subiuncta sunt epigrammata latine ac germanice conscripta, fabularum omnium summam breviter ac erudite comprehendentia, Cologne, Joannem Jansonium, 1607
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Empire of Great Mogol (18th century?)
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Hindu Princess Committing Suttee (17th century)
Wellcome Library, London
Sacrifice of Iphigenia [1640 - 1642]
Galleria Spada, Rome
Sacrifice of Iphigenia [1690 - 1700]
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Sacrificio di Ifigenia [1760]
Schlossmuseum, Weimar
Diana en Iphigenia (17th Century)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Vedova di un indiano (1845)
from: Atlante Illustrato, Florence, 1845
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A Suttee (1858)
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Preparation for a Suttee (1816)
British Library, London (http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html)
Vedova indiana che si abbrucia (1816)
from: Ferrario, G. Il costumo antico e moderno, Florence, c.1816
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Burninge of a Banion Woman (1630s)
from: Banerjee, P. Burning Women, New York, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003, p. 123
The sacrifice of Polyxena (1401)
from: Boccaccio, Giovanni, De claris mulieribus, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 12420, fol. 56v
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
The sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter [1695]
Fondazione Brescia Musei, Brescia
Iphigenia Sacrifice (18th Century)
Private collection
Les veuves du Cormandel (1725)
from: van der Aa, P. La galerie agreable du monde. Tome premier des Indes Orientales, Leiden, c. 1725
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Bramenes cum mortuus est (1598)
from: Banerjee, P. Burning Women, New York, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003, p. 92
Sacrifice of Polyxena [1590-1599]
from: Metamorphoseon sive transformationum ovidianarum...
Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Fondo Corsini; volume 57N1
Naauw-keurige aanteekeningen van William Methold (1707)
from: van der Aa, P. Naauw-keurige aanteekeningen van William Methold, Presiden van de Engelsse Maatschappy, gehouden op sijn Voyagie, in het jaar 1619, Leiden, 1619
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Sati (suttee): a woman immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist. (1800-1899)
from: India
London, Wellcome Collection
The Sacrifice of Polyxena (17th Century)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Neoptolemus sacrificing Polyxena at Achilles's tomb (1539)
from: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Paris 1539 (Denys Janot), Vol. 3, p. 150
Hindoo Woman about to be Buried (1811)
from: Goldsmith, J. Geography on a Popular Plan, London, Richard Phillips, 1811
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