Reading Outdoors by Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841-1919

 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)   The Reader

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)  Madame Chocquet Reading 1876

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)  Two Girls Reading

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919) Gabrielle Renard (1878-1959) and Jean

Reading Outdoors - My Favorite European Reading Portrait by Armand Guillaumin 1841-1927

1882 Armand Guillaumin (French Impressionist painter, 1841-1927) The Future Madame Guilaumin Reading

A Book to Read Outdoors

Embroidered satin book with floral motif. The Whole Booke of Psalmes (London, 1639), The British Library Database of Bookbindings.
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20C Hungarian music, women, legs, dogs, & goats by Robert Bereny 1887-1953

Robert Bereny (Hungarian artist, 1887-1953) Woman Playing Cello 1928


Robert Bereny (Hungarian artist, 1887-1953) Woman with Cello 1937

Robert Bereny (Hungarian artist, 1887-1953) Self Portrait 1906

In 1904, Bereny was a student of Tivadar Zemplényi, before he went to study in Paris, where he was particularly influenced by Cézanne's art. Politcally he took part in the art life of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, and he was the leader of the department for painting in the Art Directorate. After 1919, he emmigrated to Berlin, which he left to return home in 1926. He worked in Zebegény from 1934. He was awarded the Szinnyei prize in 1936.  Obviously, I am particularly fond of his self-portraits & his bold use of color.

Robert Bereny (Hungarian artist, 1887-1953) Red Dress 1908


Robert Bereny (Hungarian artist, 1887-1953) Woman in a Green Room 1927


Robert Bereny (Hungarian artist, 1887-1953) Woman in Arm Chair 1923


Robert Bereny (Hungarian artist, 1887-1953) Girl Reading 1946-48


Robert Bereny (Hungarian artist, 1887-1953) Self Portrait 1947

Women reading indoors by Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841-1919

1897 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919). Young Girl Reading

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)  Reading an Illustrated Journal 1880

 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)  The Reader 1875-1876

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)  Girl Reading 1886

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)  Woman Reading

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)  Girl Reading

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)  Girl in Blue Reading 1890

 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)  Woman Reading 1877

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919) Graziella 1910

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)

 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)   Young Girl Reading

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)  1909

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)  Reading

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919) Les Deux Soeurs 1889

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919)

18C Reading Indoors or How to flirt with a book

At first, of course, there is the innocent, virtuous young girl...

Pietro Antonio Rotari (Italian artist, 1707-1762) The Virtuous Girl

Italian painter Pietro Antonio Rotari (1707-1762), was a highly successful, itinerant artist who traveled painting portraits of wealthy patrons across Europe. As a young man he studied under Antonio Balestra in Rome & Francesco Trevisani in Naples. Thereafter he returned to Verona where he set up a studio for a while, before he began to travel.  His work attracted royal & aristocratic patrons in Dresden, Vienna, Munich, & Saint Petersburg.  In order to earn a living between commissioned portraits, he created many genre portraits, often images of pretty young girls casting coquettish glances. He died in St Petersburg, where he had traveled to paint for the Russian court.

Pietro Antonio Rotari (Italian artist, 1707-1762) Young Woman with a Book 1762

Pietro Antonio Rotari (Italian artist, 1707-1762) Girl with a Book

Pietro Antonio Rotari (Italian artist, 1707-1762) Young Lady with a Book

Pietro Antonio Rotari (Italian artist, 1707-1762) Self Portrait

Women by Swedish painter Anders Leonard Zorn 1860–1920

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Martha Dana 1899


Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Emma Zorn, Lasande 1887


Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mrs John Crosby Brown c 1900


Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mrs Walter Bacon


Anders Leonard Zorn Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon (Virginia Purdy) 1897


Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Queen Sophia 1909

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920)

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) A Musical Family 1905

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Bedouin girl 1886

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Bottling Beer 1890

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Castles in the Air 1885

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Dalecarlian girl from Rättvik 1880

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Dalecarlian Girl Knitting. Cabbage Margit, 1901

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Emma Zorn in the Paris Studio

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Frances Cleveland 1899

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Fru Lisen Samson, nee Hirsch, Arranging Flowers at a Window 1881

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Girl in an Orsa Costume

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Girl playing mandolin 1884

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Home Tunes 1920

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice 1894

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Kuver Maja

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Kvinde fra Mora, 1916

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Lace-making in Venice 1894

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Lacy Seam 1894

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Lady with fur cape 1887

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Madame Clara Rikoff 1889

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mademoiselle Antoinette May 1890

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Margit 1891

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Martha Liebermann 1896

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Midnight 1891

 Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mona 1898

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mora Marknad

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Morakulla

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mrs. Lucy Turner Joy 1897

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mrs. Potter Palmer 1893

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mrs. Veronica Heiss 1891

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Night Effect. 1895

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Old Anne, 1887

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Ols Maria 1918

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Omnibus 1891

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Our Daily Bread  The artist's mother 1886

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Painter Alice Miller 1887

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Peeling Potatoes 1916

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Portrait of Edith Palgrave Edward

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Portrait of Elizabeth Sherman Cameron 1900

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Portrait of Frieda Schiff (1876–1958), Later Mrs. Felix M. Warburg 1894

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Portrait of Lisen Lamm 1885

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Portrait of Mme Ashley 1920

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Portrait of Mrs. Eben Richards

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Reveil

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Roseta Mauri 1891

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Sommarnöje 1886

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Sunday morning 1891

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) The Bride

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) The cigarette smoker 1892

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) The Girl from Älvdalen 1911

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) The Letter 1892

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) The misses Salomon 1888

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Woman getting dressed 1893

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920)


Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mrs Symons 1888

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) In Scotland (Mrs. Symons), 1887

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Gunnlod, 1893

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) A Kitchen Maid 1919

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) was one of Sweden’s foremost artists who obtained international success as a painter, sculptor & printmaker in etching. In 1887, Zorn had received a request from the management of the Uffizi in Florence, to paint a self-portrait for their collection. It was not until 1888, that he completed this, and left the following reflections:

"I had by then never painted a portrait in the studio, because of the strange lighting and due to all the people disturbing me, but for my portrait, this could fit... It should be done in oils, and so I began trying. Of course, my vanity would portray me as a man capable of much more than painting, and suiting enough I was working on a bust of Emma in clay, so I let that lump of mud get in there as well."

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Self Portrait 1888