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)
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) Claude Monet, Le Liseur (The Reader) 1872 Oil on canvas, 65 x 50 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Monet, Claude (1840-1926)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Titus van Rijn, the Artist’s Son, Reading 1656–1657 Oil on canvas, 70.5 x 64 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna See also: • Rijn, Titus van (1641-1668)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) An Old Woman Reading, Probably the Prophetess Hannah 1631 Oil on panel, 60 x 48 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Here the light comes from behind the old woman: the brightest illumination falls on the book and her wrinkled hand,…