“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” Oscar Wilde

1. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

2. A Good Book (1905).
Paul Gustave Fischer (Danish, 1860-1934).

3. A Quiet Read.
Albert Lynch (Peruvian, Belle Époque, 1851-1912).

4. Claudine Reading.
Marcel Dyf (French, 1899-1985).

5. A Good Book.
Stuart G Davis (British, fl.1893-1904).

6. Woman Reading (The Artist’s Wife) (1962).
Aaron Shikler (American, 1922-2015).

7. Auntie’s Best Bonnet (1905-1917).
Beatrice Offor (British, 1864-1920).

8. A young lady reading a book, a spaniel on her lap.
Charles Louis Baugniet (Belgian, 1814-1886).

9. Nasturtiums (1904).
Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874-1939).

10. La Grande Soeur (The Big Sister).
Charles Joshua Chaplin (French, 1825-1891).

11. Reading Girl (1834).
Friedrich von Amerling (1803-1887).

12. Molly Reading (c. 1920).
Rose Mead (British,1867-1946).

13. Madame François Buron (1769).
Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748–1825).

14. The Reader (Seated Young Woman), 1887.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919).

15. In Träumen Versunken. (Lost in Dreams).
Friedrich von Amerling (Austrian 1803-1887).

16. The Bookbinder (1905).
Marie Danforth Page (American, 1869-1940).

17. La Liseuse - Reading Woman (1900).
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Impressionist, 1841-1919).

18. The Story Book (1877).
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (France, 1825-1905).

19. The Book Maker.
Jean-Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940).

20. Woman Reading (1769).
Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié (French, 1735-1784).

21. Young Woman Reading.
Jules-Émile Saintin (French, 1829-1894).

22. The Novel.
Edward Cucuel (American 1875-1954).

23. Story Time (Portrait Of The Artist’s Father And Daughter).
Knut Ekwall (1843–1912, Swedish).

24. Bimbo che Legge.
Antonio Mancini (Italian, 1852-1930).

25. Best of Friends.
Pierre-Charles Comte (French, 1823-1895).

26. Girl Reading (1872).
George Cochran Lambdin (American, 1830-1896).

27. Two Women (c.1917-1918).
Colin Campbell Cooper (American, 1856-1937).

28. Reading in Bed, 1935.
Josep de Togores i Llach (Spanish, 1893-1970).

29. Rembrandt’s Mother Reading (c. 1629).
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (Dutch
painter and engraver, 1606-1669).

30. Woman with a Book (1943).
Géza Vörös (Hungary, 1897-1957).

31. The Artist’s Wife (Périe) Reading (1883).
Albert Bartholomé (French, 1848–1928).

32. The Artist’s Sisters Signe and Henriette Reading a Book.
Constantin Hansen (1804-1880).

33. Reading Girl (1876).
Ilya Repin (Russian, Realism, 1844-1930).

34. Sogni (1896).
Vittorio Matteo Corcos (Italian, 1859-1933).

35. Woman Reading in a Garden (1880).
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926).

36. In the Library (by 1923).
John Arthur Lomax (British, 1857-1923).

37. On Shipboard.
Émile Vernon (French, 1872-1919).

38. Woman Reading (1922).
Boris Grigoriev (Russian, 1886–1939).

39. La Leçon de Lecture (The Reading Lesson), 1912.
Léon-Augustin L’hermitte (French naturalism, realism,
painter & printmaker, 1844-1925).

40. The End Of The Story, 1900.
Marcus Stone (1840-1921).

41. Woman Reading.
Mihai (Misu) Teisanu (Romanian, 1884-1944).

42. Two Women Reading in an Interior.
Jean Georges Ferry (French, 1851-1926).

43. A Girl Reading (c.1842).
William Etty (English, 1787-1849).

44. Lesende in einem feinen Salon (1918).
Karl Maria Schuster (Austrian, 1871-1953) .

45. Portrait of Charlotte Brontë (1873).
Painted by Evert A. Duyckinck (1816–1878).