Ballet of the nuns posters & prints

The Ballet Scene from Meyerbeers Opera Robert Le Diable (Ballet of the Nuns), 1876 Anonymous

Two Nuns Philippe de Champaigne

The Nun Jose Frappa

Nuns Sewing, Leon Augustin Lhermitte

The Nun Anonymous

The Sisters of the Hospice de Beaune Saying Grace, late 19th century Joseph Bail

The Nun William Quiller Orchardson

Cistercian nun in choir habit, c.1700 French School

The Sisters of the Abbey from 'L'Abbaye de Port-Royal', c.1710 Louise Madelaine (after) Cochin

Study of Nuns and Applicants German School

Death with the nun Simone II Baschenis

Frances Woollascot, an Augustinian nun Nicolas de Largilliere

Nuns Teaching Young Girls French School

The Burial of a Nun Louise Madelaine Cochin

Nuns and Schoolgirls in the Tuileries Gardens, Paris, 1870s-1880s Stanislas Lepine

Ballet Slippers. Britain and France, 19th century Anonymous

Saint Hedwig and the New Convent, Nuns from Bamberg Settling at the New Convent Court workshop of Duke Ludwig I of Liegnitz and Brieg

Meeting of religious sisters at Port Royal des Champs Anonymous

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; Scene in Grisaille, ca. 1485-95 Jacometto Veneziano

A monk and a nun, 1591 Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem

Nuns Meeting in Solitude Louise Madelaine Cochin

La Maison de Saint-Cyr French School

Solemn Communion Jules Triquet

The Promenade of the Orphans, 1888 Henri Eugene Augustin Le Sidaner

Scene in a monastery Anonymous

The Letter of Recommendation, 1859 Francois Bonvin

Martyrdom of a nun. Anonymous

Praying Nun Holding Rosary Anonymous

Ballet shoes and ress Assaf Frank

Rudolf Nureyev and Nadia Nerina in Don Quixote Anthony Crickmay

Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, with Two Benedictine Nuns Jacobello del Fiore

Nun's Shield Fray Miguel de Herrera

The Torment of Unchaste Monks and Nuns Simon Marmion

A Nun, with additions by Princess Maria Annunziata di Borbone Giacinto Gigante

Old nun, 1611 Marcantonio Bassetti

Death with the young man, the beggar, and the nun, detail from The Dance of Death, 1539 Simone II Baschenis