The pleasure of reading... O prazer da leitura...

Karin, my friend from the blog Altadena Hiker, send me a website called Berfrois with a series of 35 beautiful paintings of women reading a book or a paper. Karin picture me as the woman reading on the porch. I love that portrait! Thanks!

Couch on the Porch, Cos Cob, Frederick Childe Hassam, 1914. 

 

At the Breakfast Table with the Morning Newspaper, L. A. Ring, 1898.

The Railway, Edouard Manet, 1873.

Reading, Berthe Morisot, 1873.



Young Girl Reading, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1770.



Young Woman Reading a Book, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876.

 

 

READING... LEITURA...



Madame Chocquet Reading — Pierre-Auguste Renoir



Young Woman in White Reading — Pierre-Auguste Renoir



Man Seated by a Window — Marcel Duchamp 

 

Pink Note: The Novelette — James McNeill Whistler




The Artist’s Father Reading His Newspaper — Paul Cézanne

 

Woman in White — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Paintings via BIBLIOKLEPT, a great blog founded in 2006 by Edwin Turner.

 

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Header: The Book Cell Project by Matej Krén