Visual history of the full figured woman throughout art and popular culture from prehistory to the 21st century. First draft; work in progress.

1. The Full Figured Woman:
A Visual History

2. Venus of Dolni Vestonice, 29,000 BCE

3. Venus of Willendorf 28,000 BCE

4. Venus of Lespugue
24,000 BCE
Venus of Laussel
25,000 BCE

5. Venus of Moravany
22,000 BCE

6. Crouching Aphrodite
(Roman copy, 3rd cent.)

7. Pompeii Wall Murals
c. 79 AD

8. Giorgione (1477-1510)
Pastoral Concert c.1509

9. Sebastiano del Piombo (1485-1547)
The Death of Adonis c.1511-12

10. Palma Vecchio (1480–1528)
Jupiter in the Shape of Diana Appears
Before Callisto

11. Titian
Venus and an Organist and Little Dog c.1550

12. Titian
Venus and the Lute Player c.1565–70

13. Paolo Veronese
Acteon and Diana with Nymphs
c. 1562–65

14. Ippolito Scarsellino (1550–1620)
Diana and Acteon

15. Palma Giovane
Mars and Venus c.1585–90

16. Peter Paul Rubens
Venus Wounded by a Thorn c. 1608-1610

17. Peter Paul Rubens
Venus at a Mirror c. 1615

18. Peter Paul Rubens
Cimone and Efigenia c. 1617

19. Jacob Jordaens
The Daughters of Cecrops Finding the
Child Erichtonius c. 1617

20. Artemesia Gentileschi (1593-1656)
Lucretia c. 1621

21. Peter Paul Rubens
detail from The Disembarkation at Marseille
c. 1622-1625

22. Artemesia Gentileschi (1593-1656)
Cleopatra c. 1630

23. Peter Paul Rubens
Three Graces c. 1635

24. Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669)
Danaë 1636

25. Cornelis de Vos (c.1584–1651)
detail from The Birth of Venus 1636

26. Peter Paul Rubens
Diana and Callisto c. 1639

27. Jacob Jordaens
detail from Diana and Actaeon c. 1640

28. Il Padovanino (1588–1648)
Venus with Cupids

29. Simon Vouet (1590-1649)
Danae c. 1640s

30. Bernardo Strozzi
The Viola da
Gamba Player
(portrait of
Barbara Strozzi)
c. 1630-1640

31. Christiaen van Couwenbergh (1608–1667)
Woman with a Basket of Fruit c. 1642

32. Jacob Jordaens
King Candaules of Lydia Showing His
Wife to Gyges 1646

33. Jacob Jordaens
details from The Abundance of the Earth c.1649

34. Cesar van
Everdingen
The Rape of
Europa c. 1650

35. Rembrandt
Bathsheba at Her Bath c. 1654

36. Johann Carl Loth (1632–1698)
Eve Tempting Adam c. 1655–1698

37. Pietro Liberi (1605–1687)
Diana and Callisto

38. Luca Giordano
Diana and Niobe 1675–79

39. Domenico Viani (1668–1711)
Venus with Two Cupids

40. Sebastiano Ricci (1659–1734)
Allegory of Painting c. 1708

41. Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (1675-1741)
Bathsheba at Her Toilet c. 1708-1711

42. Charlier Jacques
Diana and Nymphs c. 1720

43. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Venus with a Mirror c. 1725

44. Pierre-Antoine Quillard (1701–1730)
The Four Seasons: Summer c.1725–29

45. François Boucher
Hercules and Omphale c. 1735

46. François
Boucher
Head of a
Young Girl
c. 1740-1750

47. François Boucher
Odalisque c. 1745

48. Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Indolence c. 1756-1757

49. François Boucher
Pan and Syrinx c. 1759

50. Francisco Goya
Doña Isabel Cobos de Porcel c. 1805

51. Eugene Delacroix
details from Death of Sardanapalus c. 1827

52. William Etty (1787-1849)
Nude Woman Asleep c. 1828-30

53. William Etty
Female Nude
With a Cast of
Venus de Medici
c.1835-37

54. William Etty
detail from The Coral Finder Venus and her
Youthful Satellites c. 1828-1848

55. Gustave Courbet
detail from Lot and his Daughters 1844

56. Gustave Courbet
detail from The
Bathers c. 1853

57. Gustave Courbet
Female Nude with a Dog c. 1861

58. Jean-Auguste Dominque Ingres
Turkish Bath c. 1862

59. Jean-Auguste Dominque Ingres
study for Turkish Bath (Woman with
three arms)

60. Anders Zorn (1860-1920)

61. Anders Zorn
detail from
Women Bathing
in the Sauna
c.1906

62. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

67. Paul Cezanne
detail from Pastoral Idyll 1870
Leda and the Swan 1882

68. Aubrey Beardsley
(1872-1898)
Lysistrata c. 1896

69. Lillian Russell (1860-1922)
American actress

70. Pablo Picasso
Dutch Girl c.1905

71. Walter Sickert
The Dutch c.1906

72. Frantisek Kupka
detail from Autumn Sun,
Three Goddesses c.1906

73. Franz Marc
Nude with Cat c.1910

74. Marcel Duchamp
Baptism c.1911

75. Boris Kustodiev
Beauty c.1915

76. Ilya Mashkov
Nude c.1918

77. David Burliuk
In the Bathouse c.1910s

78. Felix Vallotton
Squatted
Woman
Offering Milk
to a Cat c.1919

79. Felix Vallotton
Woman with Red Shawl c.1920

80. Tamara de Lempicka
Nu assis c. 1923

81. Moise Kisling
Kiki de Montparnasse c. 1920s

82. Gaston Lachaise
Woman (Biggest Little Woman in the World)
c. 1920s

83. Max Beckmann
Motherhood c. 1920s

84. Gaston Lachaise
Acrobat c.1926

85. Ilya Mashkov
On the Beach c.1926

86. Otto Dix
detail from Three Wenches c.1926

87. Otto Dix
detail from Salon c.1927

88. Pyotr Konchalovsky
Model with Red Hair by the Mirror c.1928
Seated Nude c.1918

89. Unknown

90. Unknown

91. Gaston Lachaise
Standing Woman c.1932

92. Giorgio de Chirico
Nude Woman on the Beach c.1932

93. Pablo Picasso
Reclining Nude c.1932

94. Duane Bryers
Hilda c. 1950s

95. Duane Bryers
Hilda c. 1950s

96. 1950s Postcard
[Negative portrayal
of the full-figure]

97. Frank Frazetta fl. 1950s-1970s

98. Fernando Botero
Tribute to Bonnard
c.1972

99. Joel Peter-Witkin
Courbet in Rejlander's Pool, New Mexico c. 1985

100. Ernst Fuchs c. 1988

101. Fernando Botero
Statues in Madrid c. 1994

104. Jan Saudek
fl. 1990s

105. Jan Saudek
fl. 1990s

106. Laurie Toby Edison
Photographs from
Women en Large
c. 1994

107. Odd Nerdrum
Woman c. 1995

108. Lucian Freud
Woman Sleeping c. 1995

109. Lucian Freud
Benefits Supervisor Resting (Sue
Tilley) c. 1995

110. Jeanne Lorioz (b. 1954)

111. Jeanne Lorioz (b. 1954)

112. Herlinde Koebl
from Starke Frauen c.1996

113. Kim Hunter
Modesty Robust
c. 1996

114. Unknown c. 2004

115. Unknown c. 2004

116. Unknown (Matuse?)
c. 2005

117. Leonard Nimoy
“Three Graces” from Full Body Project c. 2007

118. Julia Fullerton-Batten
from Unadorned series 2012

121. Xu Hongfei c. 2010

122. Unknown

123. Adam Schultz

124. Karen Portaleo

125. Pamela Mummy
Phantom Phrolic c. 2008-2011 A Generous Thought
c. 2008-2011

126. Unknown

127. Jennifer Fox

128. Unknown

129. Chris Maher
Full Figured Nude c. 2011

130. Chris Maher
Full Figured Nude c. 2011

131. Unknown

132. Joanne Claxton
Masked Female Nude c. 2011

133. Chuck Miller
Seated Nude c. 2011

134. Laura Culham
Voluptuous Nude c. 2012

135. Rayven Collins
Two Nude Ladies
Seated Goddess

136. Rayven Collins
Layers
Baby Got Back

137. Yossi Loloi
Full Beauty Project c. 2013

138. Katie Finley
Lady in the Striped Garters c. 2013

139. Juliya Zhukova
Seraphima c. 2014

140. Body Image Then

141. Body Image Now

142. Rayven Collins
Define Perfect

143. Rear View of the
Female from
Albrecht Durer’s
Notes c. 1528