Old Women

Profile of Woman with a Chignon (Profil de femme au chignon)

Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1904, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Thannhauser Collection, Bequest, Hilde Thannhauser, 1991

Old Woman with a Shawl and a Walking-Stick

Vincent van Gogh, 1882; The Hague, Netherlands: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Old Woman and Young Woman ( Alte und Junge Frau )

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1921, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Estate of Karl Nierendorf, By purchase

Bust of an Old Woman

circle of Rembrandt van Rijn, early 1630s, The Leiden Collection, New York City

Portrait of an Old Woman (Portret van een oude vrouw)

Pieter Bruegel the Elde, 1563, Northern Renaissance, Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Alte mit Geldbeutel (Old with purse)

Durer, 1507

The Madwoman, or The Obsession of Envy

Théodore Géricault, 1822, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France

Old Woman

Gustav Klimt, 1909, Symbolism

A Grotesque old woman Alternative titles: Portrait of an Old Woman The Ugly Duchess

Quentin Matsys, c.1513, National Gallery, London

Old Woman Examining a Coin by a Lantern (Sight or Avarice)

Gerrit van Honthorst, 1623, The Kremer Collection,1623

Bust of an old woman, in profile to left

Jan Lievens, c. 1631

Portrait of an old Woman

Balthasar Denner, Art Museum Riga Bourse, Riga, Latvia

Seldom do we see old women depicted as anything but ugly. The cult of Youth causes us to miss out on much of the wisdom, perspective and humour that comes with age.