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

Precious gentlemen...

Lovis Corinth (German artist, 1858-1925) The Freemasons

If you read this blog regularly, you know that I seldom include paintings with completely male subjects; but this one is just too precious to pass by.  Oh my...

The Female Saints of Francisco de Zurbarán 1598–1664

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Apolonia

Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664), born at Fuente de Cantos & active mainly in Seville, devoted himself almost entirely to religious works. He worked for churches & monasteries over a wide area of southern Spain and his paintings were also exported to South America. His simple compositions & emotionally direct altarpieces, combining austere naturalism with mystical intensity, made him an ideal Counter-Reformation painter.

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Casilda of Burgos

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Casilda. c 1630-1645

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Casilda

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Dorotea

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Dorothea

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Eufemia

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Isabel

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Margaret. c 1630-1635

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Marina

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Eulalia

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Rufina. Early 1630s

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Ursula

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Santa Lucia 1625

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Santa Lucia 1633

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Agatha

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Ursula

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Lucy

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Mathilda

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Barbe

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Ines

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Engracia

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Engracia

  

1700s Bringing the Harvest to the Table with Peter Jakob Horemans (Flemish-Dutch painter, 1700-1776)

Peter Jakob Horemans (Flemish-Dutch painter, 1700-1776) Lady at a Table Laden with Food

One of my favorite 18th-century Flemish painters is Peter Jakob Horemans (1700-1776), who was active as court painter in Munich. Horemans’s lovingly detailed images, part portrait & part still life, capture the richness of everyday life in southern Germany.

Peter Jakob Horemans (Flemish-Dutch painter, 1700-1776) Gentleman at a Table Laden with Food

Peter Jakob Horemans (Flemish-Dutch painter, 1700-1776) The Soup Eater

Peter Jakob Horemans (Flemish-Dutch painter, 1700-1776) Gentleman with Wine

Peter Jakob Horemans (Flemish-Dutch painter, 1700-1776) Kitchen Still Life "The Feeling" 1760

Peter Jakob Horemans (Flemish-Dutch painter, 1700-1776) The Sleeping Kitchen Maid

1600s Music in unexpected places - French peasants by Le Nain brothers

By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).  Children singing with the violin

 Musicians attributed to  one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c 1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c 1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).

By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).  After Haymaking  Flute music...

By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).  Old Flute Player

By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).  Peasants in Landscape  Flute music.

By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).  Peasant Family at Home  Flute music

By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).  The Flageolet Player

By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).  Preparing for Dance School (not exactly peasants)

By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677). Landscape with Peasants  Flute music.

By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).  Resting Man wih horse  Flute music.

By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).  Spinner's Family at Dinner

By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).  Family of the Milkmaid

By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).  Peasant Family