A study of a detail of Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid by Johannes Vermeer

[Galleria Borghese, Rome - Oil on canvas, 112 x 157 cm]

men reading Odilon Redon, 'Alsace, or Monk reading' [source] Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 'Claude Monet Reading' [source] Peter Samuelson, 'Robin with friend and Trixie, 1952' [source] Georg Friedrich Kersting, 'Man Reading by Lamplight' [source] Girolamo Parmigianino, Portrait of a Man with a Book [source] Francois Vispre, 'Portrait of a Man Reading' [source] Yi Ming, 'Reading the Book "The Three Kingdoms" at Midnight' [source] Jan Kupecky, 'Portrait of a Man' [source] Henri Girault de Nolhac…

Soviet Ukrainian painter Yuri Balikov, Collective farm chairman, Yuri Yevdokimovich Balikov, Soviet artists, difficult years, Great Patriotic War

Alfred Munnings Reading Aloud Outside on the Grass c. 1911 by Harold Knight

Rules for proper correspondence encompassed everything from acceptable shades of ink to conditions under which a woman must write in the third person.

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Self-portrait, Johann Zoffany, 1761 (detail)

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