The Mouseion · The Season · Women Who Painted

Women Who Painted

Artists, before 1930

Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Leyster, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Rosa Bonheur, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt and many artists history forgot. An exhibition entirely of women artists, for Women’s History Month.

Walk inThe whole museum

When it’s on

In The Season’s hall, off the Hall: March 2026.

The works

The works are chosen when the exhibition is hung, a few days before it opens.

Where the works come from

Every work in the Mouseion is a real piece, out of copyright everywhere, shown from the open collections of the museums that hold it — each label names the original’s museum and links to its page there.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Open Access
• The Art Institute of Chicago — public-domain collection
• The Cleveland Museum of Art — Open Access
• Wikimedia Commons — public-domain photographs of works held elsewhere