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Pair of 18th Century Italian Ecclesiastical Embroideries on Mercury Mirrors
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
metal foil. These elaborate works of art were created by nuns and were detailed decorations for a
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18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Nun

Materials

Mirror, Beads, Thread, Fabric

French Art Deco Crucifix, 1920, Poor Clares
Located in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR
order dedicated to a life of poverty and contemplation. The nuns were deeply involved in the education
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1920s French Art Deco Antique Nun

Materials

Bronze

Antique Terracota Figure Death and Merchant Basler Totentanz Macabre Zizenhausen
Located in Malmö, SE
nimpt weder Gelt noch Gut, Nun tantzen her mit freyem Muth. Der Kaufmann : Ich hatt mich zu leben
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1850s German Baroque Revival Antique Nun

Materials

Terracotta

Early 20th century original poster - Law on the Separation of Church and State
Located in PARIS, FR
the expulsion of nuns from hospitals and schools, which had previously been key centers of Catholic
Category

Early 1900s Antique Nun

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Bolognese School of the 16th Century - Mummy of Saint Catherine of Bologna
Located in Bruxelles, BE
nun's attire. When she died in 1463, Catherine was buried in the convent cemetery without embalming or a
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16th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Nun

Materials

Wood, Giltwood

Japanese Rare Antique Scroll of Waka Heart Poem Famous Rengetsu Otagaki, signed
Located in South Burlington, VT
famous nun in old Japan and being familiar with poetry, her Waka poems on paper, and especially her hard
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Late 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Nun

Materials

Paper

The Resurrection
Located in Middletown, NY
consistent with age. Suor Isabella (born Elisabetta Piccini 1644-1732) was an Italian artist and nun who
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18th Century Italian School Antique Nun

Materials

Laid Paper, Engraving

Still life with meadow flowers - The beauty of meadow flowers -
Located in Berlin, DE
der Pflanzen. Nun wird deutlich, dass Robie das Sujet des Blumenstilllebens neu fasst: Es ist ihm
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Early 1900s Naturalistic Antique Nun

Materials

Oil, Wood

Antique Korean Sutra Desk with Buddhism Symbol Joseon Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
in Goryeo dynasty and used by monks and nuns for sutra reading. In the Confucianism-dominated Joseon
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Mid-19th Century Korean Other Antique Nun

Materials

Elm

18th Century French Hand Carved and Painted Wood Statue
Located in Dallas, TX
painted finish. Depicting a nun reading a bible, the nun's garments are of particular interest to students
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Late 18th Century French Rustic Antique Nun

Materials

Oak, Paint

The Boat in Martigues, France
By Marie-Anne Nivoulies de Pierrefort
Located in London, GB
attended a Catholic school run by nuns, obtaining a scholarship from the School of Fine Arts of Paris
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1910s Impressionist Antique Nun

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ordinis Benedictini monialis; Saint Thecla of Kitzengen
Located in Middletown, NY
British Museum, this image is related to a series of costumes of monks and nuns of various religious
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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Antique Nun

Materials

Etching, Laid Paper, Engraving

Dominicaine Religious Order Portrait – Handcolored Antique Print, 1862
Located in Langweer, NL
G. Perugini and printed by the Maison Silvestre in Paris, vividly portrays a Dominican nun engrossed
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1860s Antique Nun

Materials

Paper

Traditional Headwear from Italy: Turin, Rome, Subiaco and More – 1823 Print
Located in Langweer, NL
center bottom, a nun in prayer is portrayed in profile, her face partially veiled beneath a netted wimple
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1820s Antique Nun

Materials

Paper

James W. Milliken (1865-1945) - Watercolour, The Marketplace, Furnes Belgium
Located in Corsham, GB
produce from the quaint market stalls and a nun can be scene walking the cobbled street in the foreground
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Late 19th Century Antique Nun

Materials

Watercolor

19th Century Continental Mahogany and Tapestry Expandable Trestle Fire Screen
Located in Germantown, MD
tapestry depicts a lady sitting down ( possibly a Nun or Reverend Mother) with holy bible on her laps and
Category

Late 19th Century American Late Victorian Antique Nun

Materials

Textile, Tapestry, Glass, Mahogany

Antique Bird Print of the White-Headed Munia, Chesnut Munia and Java Sparrow
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique bird print titled '1. Magafinch or white-headed nun. 2. Black-headed finch or nun. 3. Java
Category

Late 19th Century Antique Nun

Materials

Paper

Infirmerie daybed from the monastery of Holtum, France 1900s
By Jean Prouvé
Located in ECHT, NL
monastery was run by a French order of nuns who came to the Netherlands in 1901 after being exiled in France
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Early 20th Century French Art Deco Antique Nun

Materials

Metal

La Sagrada Familia
Located in Miami, FL
churches. The Immaculate Conception serves as a principal motif for several of his nun's medallions.
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18th Century Old Masters Antique Nun

Materials

Copper

"Funchal, Madeira Franciscans Convent" Antique Drawing on Paper Watkinson
Located in Soquel, CA
captain of Funchal, to be his family tomb. The convent, dedicated to Franciscan nuns, was founded by João
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1830s Romantic Antique Nun

Materials

Laid Paper, Pencil

Two Worlds - British Edwardian figurative interior oil painting religious art
Located in Hagley, England
window and the light. She is wearing the white headdress of a novice nun over a pale yellow floral dress
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1910s Realist Antique Nun

Materials

Oil

Historic bronze lantern from a monastery. Naples 1800 circa
By Venini
Located in Budapest, HU
Ancient bronze lantern from a monastery of cloistered nuns located on the Amalfi coast. A candle
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19th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Antique Nun

Materials

Art Glass

An Olivewood Dreidel, Jerusalem Circa 1920
Located in New York, NY
body, and a flywheel bottom. The letters Nun, Gimmel, Hey, and Shin of the Hebrew alphabet are written
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1920s Israeli Antique Nun

Materials

Wood, Olive

Pair of 18th Century Italian Vases Decorated with Shells and Baroque Pearls
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
. They are hand-carved and hand-painted by nuns in a local convent. Baroque pearls were famously used as
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18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Nun

Materials

Gold Leaf

18th Century Italian Florentine Giltwood Engraved Box
Located in Milano, MI
engravings. Inside they are not lined. In Italy this kind of work of art is the so called NUNS BOX, the box
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Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Nun

Materials

Walnut

Muse / - In the realm of the muses -
Located in Berlin, DE
Karlsruhe, für die er fortan Entwürfe lieferte. Thoma stand nun auf dem Höhepunkt seines künstlerischen
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1890s Realist Antique Nun

Materials

Paper

Boy at the source / - Elixir of Life -
Located in Berlin, DE
Karlsruhe, für die er fortan Entwürfe lieferte. Thoma stand nun auf dem Höhepunkt seines künstlerischen
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1890s Realist Antique Nun

Materials

Paper

At the pond / - The longing of the landscape -
Located in Berlin, DE
Karlsruhe, für die er fortan Entwürfe lieferte. Thoma stand nun auf dem Höhepunkt seines künstlerischen
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1890s Realist Antique Nun

Materials

Paper

Southern German summer landscape / - The profile of the landscape -
Located in Berlin, DE
. Thoma stand nun auf dem Höhepunkt seines künstlerischen Ruhmes. Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
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1890s Realist Antique Nun

Materials

Paper

Circa 1910 original aviation poster by Calmont titled L atterrissage au couvent
Located in PARIS, FR
nuns and bystanders convey a range of emotions, from awe and excitement to trepidation and disbelief
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1910s Antique Nun

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Adam and Eve / - United in Death -
Located in Berlin, DE
Karlsruhe, für die er fortan Entwürfe lieferte. Thoma stand nun auf dem Höhepunkt seines künstlerischen
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Early 1900s Realist Antique Nun

Materials

Paper

S. Anton Patenkirchen / - The Home of the Landscape -
Located in Berlin, DE
Großherzoglichen Majolika-Manufaktur Karlsruhe, für die er fortan Entwürfe lieferte. Thoma stand nun auf dem
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1890s Realist Antique Nun

Materials

Paper

18th Century Italian Florentine Silver-leaf Polylobed Engraved Box
Located in Milano, MI
. Inside they are not lined. In Italy this kind of work of art is the so called NUNS BOX, the box
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Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Nun

Materials

Walnut

The Convent Boat - British Victorian Pre-Raphaelite art religious oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
was painted circa 1874 and has extensive provenance. The composition is of a novice nun leaving her
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1880s Pre-Raphaelite Antique Nun

Materials

Oil

Large Medieval 15th Century Religious Hand Carved Marble Sculpture Group
Located in Nottingham, GB
Emmerich (19th century) A mystical work based on the visions of the German nun Anne Catherine Emmerich
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15th Century and Earlier French Antique Nun

Materials

Marble

Adoration of the Magi / - The Rider of the Sun -
Located in Berlin, DE
zum Ausdruck. Sie bezieht sich auf den vom ‚Blauen Reiten‘ initiierten Aufbruch, der nun sakral
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1910s Expressionist Antique Nun

Materials

Paper

Antique Bird Print of the Maja Finch, Black-Headed Finch and Firetail (1886)
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique bird print of various birds including the maja finch, black-headed finch, tri coloured nun
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Late 19th Century Antique Nun

Materials

Paper

Alabaster and Marble Bust of Saint Clare of Assisi
Located in Guaynabo, PR
Benedictine nun. The olive branch symbolizes the welcome of God to her new life and the letting go of her past.
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Early 20th Century Unknown Renaissance Antique Nun

Materials

Alabaster, Marble

Spanish school. Secretary of Pope Pius V, abbot of Husillos, bishop of Córdoba.
Located in Firenze, IT
the Inquisition in a unique case: his sister Catalina de Reynoso y Baeza, a nun of the convent of
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17th Century Old Masters Antique Nun

Materials

Parchment Paper, Oil, Wood Panel

Edward Angelo Goodall RWS (1819-1908) - Signed Watercolour, Cottage Interior
Located in Corsham, GB
nun takes care of two small children. This intriguing scene has many unanswered questions. Well
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19th Century Antique Nun

Materials

Watercolor

Sister of Redemption in Traditional Habit – Vibrant Handcolored 1862 Lithograph
Located in Langweer, NL
nun is depicted standing with a serene yet resolute expression, dressed in the traditional habit of
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1860s Antique Nun

Materials

Paper

19th century Aubusson tapestry (Saint RITA) - No. 969
Located in Paris, FR
and Augustinian nun venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. After Rita's husband died, she
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1850s French Aubusson Antique Nun

Materials

Wool

Old Print of a Religious Ceremony for Corpus Christi Day and Palm Sunday, 1725
Located in Langweer, NL
of nuns and monks carrying palm fronds as well as other town people in the entry of a church. The
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1720s French Antique Nun

Materials

Paper

Early 20th Century Double Sided French Zinc Clock Smiths Trade Sign
Located in London, GB
example would have originally hung outside a French clock smith likely named Nunes (Nunes is a Portuguese
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1910s French Victorian Antique Nun

Materials

Zinc

Pair of 19th C. Hand-colored Lithographs of Ducks by John Gould
By John Gould
Located in Alamo, CA
"Mergus Umbellus' (Smew or Nun Ducks) from John Gould's publication "Birds of Great Britain", published in
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1860s Naturalistic Antique Nun

Materials

Lithograph

Engraving of Françoise Louise de La Baume, Duchess of La Vallière, c.1900
Located in Langweer, NL
nun in 1674. This print originates from ' LA MÉSANGÈRE, Pierre and LANTÉ, Louis Marie. Costumes des
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Early 20th Century French Antique Nun

Materials

Paper

Trappist Monk of the Order of Cistercians Reading a Bible, 1845
Located in Langweer, NL
Cistercians. They follow the Rule of Saint Benedict and have communities of both monks and nuns that are known
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1840s Antique Nun

Materials

Paper

The Priest - China Ink Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
satirical artist realized this drawing and represented a priest in socks and two nuns watching him and
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Early 20th Century Antique Nun

Materials

Ink

Set of Five Ceramic Tea Cups by Otagaki Rengetsu
Located in Atlanta, GA
was a famous Buddhist nun in Edo period who is widely regarded to have been one of the greatest
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Late 19th Century Japanese Japonisme Antique Nun

Materials

Ceramic, Wood

Japanese Monastery Robe Patchwork Kesa with inscription Edo Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
"ShiHui" the true nun, the former wife of WeiZhong (likely a name). Enter the temple timely into the
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Early 19th Century Japanese Japonisme Antique Nun

Materials

Brocade, Silk

19th Century France Needle Point Hand-Knotted Wool and Silk Red Gold Tapestry
Located in Firenze, IT
, which since the Middle Ages was engaged by court ladies and nuns in convents. It took hours and hours of
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Late 19th Century French Aubusson Antique Nun

Materials

Wool, Silk

Italian 19th Century Braided Straw Box from a Monastery in Umbria Region
Located in Milano, MI
shape, hand-realized in an antique abbey in Umbria region, by a Benedictine nun, according to the famous
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Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Nun

Materials

Brass, Iron

Las Rinde el Sueño - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1868
By Francisco Goya
Located in Roma, IT
34. Titled on the lower margin "Las rinde el Sueño " (The dreams win) Perfect conditions. Nuns
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1860s Old Masters Antique Nun

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

18th/19th Century Spanish Colonial Carved Polychrome Wood Santo Altar Sculpture
Located in Forney, TX
, polychrome painted gesso over finely sculpted wood, inset glass eyes, shown in Carmelite nun habit with
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Late 18th Century Spanish Colonial Antique Nun

Materials

Gesso, Wood, Paint

Victorian antique English still life of flowers, birds nest, eggs in a garden
By Henry John Livens
Located in Woodbury, CT
became known as the ‘Painting Nun’, signing her works Sister Mary Etheldreda. By 1886, he was living in
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1890s Victorian Antique Nun

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Manca Penitente - Watercolor by M. De Vito - 1820 ca.
By Michela De Vito
Located in Roma, IT
nun. Hand-titled black ink on lower margin at the center. Near perfect conditions except some light
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1820s Modern Antique Nun

Materials

Watercolor

Portrait - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
By Thomas Holloway
Located in Roma, IT
", London, Bensley, 1810. This artwork portrays a nun. On the back of this artwork there is a text. Good
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1810s Old Masters Antique Nun

Materials

Etching

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