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Selected Works Beauty

This section features artworks pertaining to beauty routines. Caring for oneself has always been an essential part of the lives of men and women. Make-up, ornaments and clothing are just a few of the practices used to enhance one’s beauty.

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Decorative Arts

Attributed to Nicolas BESNIER

Washbowl bearing the arms of the...

1719-20
Paintings

Adam Frans van der MEULEN

Venus at her Toilet, or The Air

1621-33
Decorative Arts

Toilet Mirror

1660-61
Decorative Arts

François-Honoré-Georges JACOB-DESMALTER

The Empress's Jewelry Cabinet

1809
Egyptian Antiquities

Sprang cap

Fifth-seventh centuries AD

Egypt, Antinoe, tomb C 350
Decorative Arts

Rock-crystal mirror

C. 1630
Egyptian Antiquities

Kohl Recipient: the god Bes

New Kingdom, late Eighteenth Dynasty, circa 1400-1300 BC
Egyptian Antiquities

Kohl pot in the form of a Nubian...

New Kingdom (1550-1069 BC)
Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities

Flask in the shape of a bird

First century AD

Italy
Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities

Flacon with two tubular...

Fourth or fifth century AD

Syria
Paintings

Théodore ChassériauSamana (Santo Domingo), 1819 -...

Esther Preparing Herself to Meet...

1841
Paintings

François BOUCHER

Diana Leaving Her Bath

1742
Egyptian Antiquities

Cosmetic spoon

New Kingdom, late Eighteenth Dynasty, circa 1400-1300 BC
Egyptian Antiquities

Comb

5th century

Antinoe
Near Eastern Antiquities

Bull-shaped cosmetic flask

Late 3rd-early 2nd millennium BC

Bactria (?)
Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities

Attributed to the C PAINTER

Attic black-figure tripod...

c.570-560 BCE

Thebes