While many of the famous female impressionists of the 19th and 20th centuries were born in America, they quickly fled to this country to study where the movement first emerged.
France
This painting by Edvard Munch was stolen and recovered in 1994; only to be stolen again in 2004, but was thankfully recovered in 2006. Hopefully Oslo upgraded their security.
The Scream
The one with the smile
Leonardo da Vinci
in one of the earliest forms of female organized empowerment, this group was founded in 1855 in order to create commercialized success among women.
Society of Female Artist
on March 18th 1990, two thieves disguised themselves as police officers and stole an estimated $500 million dollars in artwork from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in this US Capital
Boston
The one with the giant shell
the Impressionist style of art can be deduced from the unblended bursts of color, loose brushwork, and this type of technique
plein air
Due to the influx of women artists flourishing during this era, many universities were creating studies specific to wealthy women; including this popular institute who admitted it's first female scholar in the 1860's.
Royal Academy
The Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Egypt thought they had bested the criminal art world after recovering one of this painters last artworks "Poppy Flowers" ten years after being stolen in 1977. Only for it to later be lifted again in 2010.
Van Gogh
The one with the famous eyebrows
Freda Kahlo
Famously known as "Les Trois Grandes Dames", these great ladies of the 19th century movement included Mary Cassatt, Marie Bracquemond, and this sister-in-law of Monet.
Berthe Morisot
The tragic drowning of this Shakespearean character has been the muse of many artists... and even some modern day bands.
Ophelia
Keep and eye of this Rembrandt missing masterpiece, as the reward for finding it is humble $10 million
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee
The one with the pearl earring
Johannes Vermeer
While many critics argued that sculpting was men's art-- stating that "the chisel and mallet require stronger hands" -- this female sculpture was commissioned to be the royal sculptor
Mary Thornycroft
"Allegory of Christian Belief" and "Young Couple in a Landscape" are just two of paintings plundered by the Nazis from this Jewish art collector.
Arthur Feldmann
The one with the flying shoe
jean- Honoré Fragonard