reading

Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848)

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1789

Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse

Rembrandt · 1665–67

The Englishman (William Tom Warrener, 1861–1934) at the Moulin Rouge

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1892

Saint Jerome as Scholar

El Greco · ca. 1610

The Young Virgin

Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1632–33

Two Young Girls at the Piano

Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1892

Young Woman with a Lute

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

The Siesta

Paul Gauguin · ca. 1892–94

The Potato Peeler (reverse: Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat)

Vincent van Gogh · 1885

Saint Andrew

Simone Martini · ca. 1326

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)

Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling · early 1480s

Sebastián Martínez y Pérez (1747–1800)

Francisco Goya · 1792

Oleanders

Vincent van Gogh · 1888

Madonna and Child

Filippino Lippi · ca. 1483–84

The Love Letter

Jean-Honoré Fragonard · early 1770s

Brother Gregorio Belo of Vicenza

Lorenzo Lotto · 1547

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels

Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Modern Rome

Giovanni Paolo Panini · 1757

The Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox

William Hogarth · 1729

A Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier

Gerard ter Borch · ca. 1658

Lucrezia Agliardi Vertova (1490?–1558)

Giovanni Battista Moroni · 1557

Madame Jean-Baptiste Nicolet (Anne Antoinette Desmoulins, 1743–1817)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze · late 1780s

Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill

Pieter Claesz · 1628

Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868)

Marie-Denise Villers · 1801

The Assumption of the Virgin

Bernardo Daddi · ca. 1337–39

An Evening School

Gerrit Dou · ca. 1655–57

The Collector of Prints

Edgar Degas · 1866

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Metsys · ca. 1520

Satire on Art Criticism

Rembrandt · 1644

Guillaume Budé (1467–1540)

Jean Clouet · ca. 1536

The Visit

Pietro Longhi · 1746

The Letter

Pietro Longhi · 1746

The Entrance Hall of the Regensburg Synagogue

Albrecht Altdorfer · 1519

Portrait of a Man ("The Auctioneer")

Rembrandt · probably ca. 1658–62

Saint Anthony Reading

Albrecht Dürer · 1519

Nini in the Garden (Nini Lopez)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1876

Self-Portrait

Gerrit Dou · ca. 1665

Reading the News at the Weavers' Cottage

Adrian Ostade · 1673

The Letter

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot · ca. 1865

In Full Sunlight (En plein soleil)

James Tissot · ca. 1881

Virgin and Child

Hans Memling · ca. 1490–94

Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584)

Giovanni Battista Moroni · shortly after 1553

Erasmus of Rotterdam

Albrecht Dürer · 1526

Portrait of a Man

Moretto da Brescia · ca. 1520–25

Young Communards in Prison (Les Fédérés à la Conciergerie)

Gustave Courbet · 1871

The Interior of an Atelier of a Woman Painter

Marie-Victoire Lemoine · 1789

An Apostle

Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1471–73

Merahi metua no Tehamana (Tehamana Has Many Parents or The Ancestors of Tehamana)

Paul Gauguin · 1893

Untitled

Suzuki Harunobu · ca. 1767