Reading 1 Artworks about books and readers

SLIDESHOW - Collection of artworks featuring books and readers from throughout history, for the delight of art lovers and bibliophiles. The act of reading, especially reading that is done by a woman, is a very common subject matter throughout art history, despite the paucity of women's education throughout the centuries.

Blaise Vlaho Bukovac (1855 – 1922), Theodore Robinson (1852 – 1895), Charles Perugini (1839 – 1918), Nikolai Bogdanov -Belsky (1868 – 1945) etc.
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” ― Charles William Eliot

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2. Samuel Jennings (active 1789-1834)
Liberty Displaying the Arts and
Sciences (1792)
Location Library Company of
Philadelphia

3. Claude Monet (1840 –1926)
La Liseuse(Reading Woman) 1871
The collector Raymond Koechlinleft it
to the Louvre in 1931

4. Blaise Vlaho Bukovac (1855-1922)
Lady reading

5. Blaise Vlaho Bukovac (1855 –1922)
Lady reading

6. Blaise Vlaho Bukovac (1855 –1922)
During reading

7. Blaise Vlaho Bukovac (1855 –1922)
A moment’s distraction

8. Theodore Robinson (1852–1895)
American Impressionist painter
Reading in The Valley of Arconville, c 1887

9. Theodore Robinson (1852–1895)
Nettie reading

10. Theodore Robinson (1852–1895)
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery

11. Theodore Robinson (1852–1895)
In the Orchard 1895
Summer Hillside, Giverny

12. Theodore Robinson (1852–1895)
Self-portrait (c. 1884–1887)
Reading in the lane
c. 1893

13. Pablo Picasso (1881 –1973)
Girl Reading

14. Pablo Picasso (1881 –1973)
Reclining womanreading,1960
Femme couchée lisant
(Marie-Thérèse)

15. Charles Perugini(1839 –1918)
Victorian painter (and son-in-law of Charles Dickens)
In the Orangery

16. Charles Perugini(1839 –1918)
Idle moments

17. Charles Perugini(1839 –1918)
The Rampants

18. Jean-Jacques Henner (1829–1905)
La liseuse
Musée d’Orsay Paris

19. Albert Ritzberger(1853–1915)
A reclining woman reading

20. Albert Ritzberger (1853–1915)
Sweet dreams

21. Alexander Deineka(1899–1969)
Young Woman reading 1934
Gustav Adolph Henning (1797–1869) Reading girl 1828
Museum derBildendenKünste, Leipzig

22. Anastasia Vostrezova (born 1981)
Boys portrait with Holy Bible

23. Arthur Gaskin (1862–1928)
Annunciation

24. Anton Raphael
Mengs
(1728
–
1779)
Annunciation The State Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg, Russia

25. Irving Ramsey Wiles (1861–1948)

26. August Macke (1887–1914)
Reading woman
Oscar Bluhm
(German, 1867–1912)
In the Pergola 1892

27. Helen M. Turner (American Impressionist Painter, 1858–1958)
Alice In Wonderland
Helen M. Turner (1858–1958)

28. XueYan Qun(born 1953)

29. XueYan Qun(born 1953)

30. Antique Style Chinese Woman
Swinging and Book Reading

31. Igor Samsonov
-
Born in Voronezh, Russia, in 1963

32. Jean-ÉtienneLiotard(1702 –1789)
Marie-Adelaide of France Dressed in Turkish
Costume 1753
Uffizi Gallery

33. Jean
-
Étienne
Liotard
(1702
–
1789)
"Portrait of Mlle
Lavergne
, the niece of the artist”
Jean
-
Étienne
Liotard
(1702
–
1789)
Madame Louise
d’Epinay

34. Jacques-Louis David (1748 –1825)
painted in 1821, Bonaparte Girls

35. Jacques-Louis David (1748 –1825)
Marie-JosèpheBuron

36. Matthias Stom(1600–after 1652)
Young man reading by candlelight

37. QuintenMassys(1466–1529)
Portrait of a woman
Metropolitan Museum of Art

38. QuintenMassys(1466–1529)
Money-Changer and His Wife, 1514
Muséedu Louvre, Paris

39. Stanislaw
Debicki
(1866
–
1924)
Francis Coates Jones (1857
–
1932)

40. Willem BastiaanTholen(1860 –1931)

41. Karin Jurick
American self-taught artist

42. Nikolai PetrovichBogdanov-Belsky
(Russian painter, 1868–1945)
Reading in the Garden 1915

43. Nikolai PetrovichBogdanov-Belsky
(1868–1945)

44. Nikolai
Bogdanov
-
Belsky
(1868
–
1945) Reading a letter
-
1892
Albert
Chevallier
Tayler
(1862
–
1925) Her Comfort, 1889

45. Frank Dicey
(1838–1888)
The Novel,
A ladyin a garden
reading a book

46. Julius LeBlanc Stewart
(1855–1919)
Reading Aloud (Sarah
Bernhardt and
Christine Nilsson)

47. János Thorma
(Hungarian, 1870 –1937)
In the Field

48. Adolph Tidemand(1814–1876)
Old Woman Reading
Jean Roux (1677
–
1734)

49. Jean Roux (1677
–
1734)
Jean Roux (1677
–
1734)

50. Marianne Stokes (1855–1927)
Young Girl of Zsdjarin Sunday Clothes 1900
Marianne Stokes (1855–1927)
CandlemasDay.TateBritain london

51. Jahaziel
Minor (b.1985)
Reading Susan Ricker Knox (1874
–
1959) Reading in the Garden

52. Cowan Dobson (1992
–
today )
Teodor
Axentowicz
(1859
–
1936)

54. Jiang GuoFang (born 1951)
Jiang GuoFang (born 1951)

55. Jiang GuoFang (born 1951)
Jiang GuoFang (born 1951)

56. Henri Matisse (1869–1954)
Still Life with Books and Candle, 1890

57. Sound: James Galway -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -Concert n.1 sol.K.313
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Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu