Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) La Lecture interrompue (Interrupted Reading) c.1870 Oil on canvas mounted on board, 92.5 × 65.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Interrupted Reading is among the most compelling of Camille Corot’s late figure paintings. Corot almost never exhibited…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Saint Elizabeth with donor (Interior left wing) c.1514 Oil on panel, 85 x 31 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, on loan at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) Lucas Cranach the Elder was one of the most…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Femme lisant (Woman Reading) 1880–1882 Oil on canvas, 61.2 × 50.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago During the late nineteenth century, Parisian cafés were the gathering places of artists and writers and were ideal locations for observing…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Monet lisant (Madame Monet Reading Le Figaro) c.1872–1874 Oil on canvas, 53 x 71.7 cm Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa See also: • Doncieux, Camille (1847-1879)
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Femme sous la lampe (Woman by a Lamp) 1890 Oil on wood, 26.1 x 16.6 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Roblès, Berthe (1862-1942)
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Le vase chinois (Chinese Vase) 1922 Oil on canvas, 34 x 55 cm Pola Museum of Art, Hakone
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Femme lisant (A Woman Reading) 1869–1870 Oil on canvas, 54.3 × 37.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When the seventy-two-year-old Corot showed A Woman Reading at the Salon of 1869, the critic Théophile Gautier praised…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Dans les bois de Giverny: Blanche Hoschedé à son chevalet et Suzanne Hoschedé lisant (In the Woods at Giverny: Blanche Hoschedé at Her Easel with Suzanne Hoschedé Reading) 1887 Oil on canvas, 91.44 x 97.79 cm Los…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Georges Rivière et Marguerite Legrand (In the Studio) 1876–1877 Oil on canvas, 36.2 × 26.99 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Although it was painted in the mid-1870s, this small painting has all the intimacy of a…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune fille lisant (Young Girl Reading) c.1888 Oil on canvas, 14.8 x 10.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington