Ballet of the nuns posters & prints

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

The Nun Jose Frappa

Two Nuns Philippe de Champaigne

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

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

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

Study of Nuns and Applicants German School

Nuns at Work Unknown

Frances Woollascot, an Augustinian nun Nicolas de Largilliere

Death with the nun Simone II Baschenis

The Burial of a Nun Louise Madelaine Cochin

Nuns Teaching Young Girls French School

Nuns Meeting in Solitude Louise Madelaine Cochin

Ballet Slippers. Britain and France, 19th century Anonymous

Cistercian nun in choir habit, c.1700 French School

Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn in Giselle Anthony Crickmay

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

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

Solemn Communion Jules Triquet

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

Nuns and pelicans in St James's Park Associated Newspapers

Praying Nun Holding Rosary Anonymous

Meeting of religious sisters at Port Royal des Champs Anonymous

Rudolf Nureyev and Nadia Nerina in Don Quixote Anthony Crickmay

La Maison de Saint-Cyr French School

The Madonna and Child with Saints Mary Magdelen, Peter, Clare and Francis and a portrait of the Abbess of the... Ippolito (1551-1620) Scarsella

Ballet shoes and skirt Assaf Frank

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

The Letter of Recommendation, 1859 Francois Bonvin

A Nun of the Order of St Theresa, 1852 Carl Haag

Old nun, 1611 Marcantonio Bassetti

Scene in a monastery Anonymous

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