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...