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Girl Reading a Book
By Lucien Pissarro
Located in Sheffield, MA
Lucien Pissarro
French, 1863-1944
Girl Reading a Book
Oil on canvas
18 ¼ by 15 in. W/frame 24
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Reading" contemporary oil painting of woman with book, painterly stylized
By Kelly Carmody
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Reading" is a painterly contemporary oil painting of woman with a book. A timeless image.
Framed
Category
2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Canvas, Oil
Model Reading a Book, French Impressionist 1930’s Nude Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Model Reading a Book
French School, Early 20th Century
Oil painting on canvas, unframed
Canvas
Category
Early 20th Century Fauvist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting early 18th venitian PIAZZETTA Oil canvas Virgin Mary reading a book
By Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Located in PARIS, FR
formats and in a tight framing, and several Virgin Mary readin a book. We can compare our painting to the
Category
Early 18th Century Baroque Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century Portrait of Young Lady Reading a Book large oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Lady Reading
by Jacob Markiel (Polish 1911-2008) *See notes below
oil on board, unframed
board: 29
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950s French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Young Lady in Green Reading Book
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Young Girl Reading a Book, Pointillist Artist
Located in Stockholm, SE
"A Young Girl Reading a Book" is a captivating portrait by Swedish artist Gustaf Arnolds.
Arnolds
Category
1930s Pointillist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Two girls reading a book
Located in Zofingen, AG
girls reading a book.
Sheet from Monahov's studio album for live sketches. Signed in the lower right
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Tempera, Permanent Marker
INCLINED READER - Textured Oil Painting w/ Scene of a Girl Reading a Book
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
painting. In the center, we see a young girl reading. She’s laying on a bed, inclined slightly, with her
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Virgin Reading From A Prayer Book, 17th Century
By Annibale Carracci
Located in Blackwater, GB
The Virgin Reading From A Prayer Book, 17th Century
School of Lodovico CARRACCI (1555-1619)
17th
Category
17th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Young Girl Reading a Book
By Adelaide Hiebel
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right
Framed under glass
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Canvas
The reading room, Painting, Oil on Paper
By Federico Cortese
Located in Yardley, PA
idea, namely how much the content of a book can acquire reality for those who are reading it, becoming
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Middle Age Aint That Bad. (Retiree Reading a Book)
By David Rosen (b.1912)
Located in Surfside, FL
artist Phillip Guston, they experimented with new painting techniques and mediums. Art movements are
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The reading room, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Federico Cortese
Located in Yardley, PA
book can acquire reality for those who are reading it, becoming as present as the true reality. For
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th C. Watercolor "Woman Reading Book"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Circa 19th Century
Watercolor portrait of a woman reading a book
Category
19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Reading" Book, read, russian art oil cm. 18 x 25 1972
By Gleb Savinov
Located in Torino, IT
reading,book, read,russian art
GLEB SAVINOV (Charkev, 1915 – St. Petersburg, 2000)
Works by Gleb
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lady Sitting in Interior Reading Book Window Overlooking Provence Landscape, oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
x 25.5 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: The painting is in overall very
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Model Reading, Surrealist Impressionist Oil Painting, Signed
By Kate Orr
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Model Reading, Surrealist Impressionist Oil Painting, Signed
By British artist, Kate Orr, late 20th
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dutch woman reading a book, Carl Schmitz-Pleis, Oil paint/canvas, Impressionist
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Germany, 1877-1943
Carl Schmitz-Pleis, originally Karl Schmitz (21 September 1877, Hennef – 1943, Düsseldorf) was a German painter.
Carl Schmitz-Pleis studied at the Düsseldorf Art ...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Marie Philips-Weber Oil on Canvas "Young Girl Reading a Book"
By Marie (Maria) Philips-Weber
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marie Philips-Weber (German, 1845-1942) oil on canvas "Reading a Book" depicting a young maiden
Category
Antique 19th Century German Victorian Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Giltwood
Studio Model Posing Whilst Reading, Nude Oil Painting
By J.B. Holmes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Life Model Posing Whilst Reading,
By J.B.Holmes, British artist, 20th Century
Oil painting on
Category
20th Century Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reading - original figurative abstract female form painting - contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
"Reading a Book" by Irina Yermolova captures the essence of pondering and wonderment through the
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Iryna YermolovaReading - original figurative abstract female form painting - contemporary art , 2024
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H 47.25 in W 70.87 in D 1.19 in
Reading Garden Spirit, Floral Figurative Contemporary Original painting, Books
By Agnese Negriba
Located in Deddington, GB
Original painting on paper by Agnese Negriba- In this artwork a female figure is depicted in a
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
H 29.93 in W 22.05 in D 0.04 in
Men Reading the Newspaper
By Arthur Burdett Frost
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration, image of a man reading the newspaper surrounded by other men.
Arthur Burdett
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Näspetus" from Zacharias Topelius book series "Reading for Children"
Located in Stockholm, SE
straight from Zacharias Topelius' beloved book series "Reading for Children", this artwork captures a young
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Discipline-Reading Boy
By Zeng Jianyong
Located in Palm Desert, CA
. "Discipline-Reading Boy" depicts a boy, a necklace of thorns around his neck, reading a picture book. Signed
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Vintage Monumental Original Signed Painting of Reading Man
Located in west palm beach, FL
fabulous chair reading his book. Original letter from the artist to the first buyer on back. Acquired from
Category
Late 20th Century American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Study of a girl sitting and reading a book
By William Hoare
Located in Bath, Somerset
A study in red chalk of a girl sitting and reading a book. Red chalk on paper under glass in a
Category
Late 18th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Glass
Studious Girl Reading a Book - Women's Education - Female Illustrator
By Elizabeth Shippen Green
Located in Miami, FL
young girl absorbed in study in front of a book case. It celebrates the intelligence of womanhood from
Category
1910s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
Daughter Reading to Mother - British 1900 Impressionist portrait oil painting
By Philip Wilson Steer
Located in London, GB
younger woman has a book on her lap and may be reading to her mother. The light from the window
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Man reading in his Study, oil painting, small, 14 K gold frame, French 19th C
By Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils
Located in New York, NY
for the victorious and patriotic appeal of his paintings. Pils became a professor at the Ecole des
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Marcel Dyf Young Woman Reading
By Marcel Dyf
Located in San Francisco, CA
beautiful young girl sitting reading a book with a vase of flowers and the sunlight coming through a window
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reading in an Armchair - Paolo Francesco Vignati
Located in MADRID, ES
, part of the armchair stands out; a huge eye of the individual sitting on it and fragments of a book in
Category
2010s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
"Reading by Lamplight" - Contemporary still life oil painting, traditional style
By Tim McGuire
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of an interior soaked in hues of blue. A traditional wooden chair is pulled out
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Folio from Communion of Saints, Reading from the Book of St. Matthew.
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Readings from the "Communion of Saints": folio from an Italian Missal
Pigment on vellum
Mid 17th
Category
15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Vellum
Living Dangerously, Original Oil Painting, Large Scale Fictional Book Cover
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
through the construction of large scale [48x72”] book cover paintings.
I use a variety of images
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude Reading
Located in San Francisco, CA
-destination posters. He also authored a Walter Foster Art book, Dramatic Paintings from Familiar Scenes
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Naturalistic Portrait of Two Young Girls Reading
By Oszkar Glatz
Located in Houston, TX
Domestic scene painting of two young girls reading from a book. Another figure sits in a doorway in
Category
Mid-20th Century Naturalistic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman reading after Henri Matisse by Claire Ragueneau
Located in Soquel, CA
Woman reading after Henri Matisse by Claire Ragueneau
Impressionist seated woman reading a book
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Oil
H 20 in W 15 in D 0.07 in
I'm Witnessing a Forest Fire-Oil Painting, Fictional Penguin Classic Book Cover
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
literary interests through the construction of large scale [48x72”] book cover paintings.
I use a variety
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
H 31 in W 19 in D 1.5 in
Vintage French Oil Still Life - Roses & Reading
Located in Houston, TX
Spectacular oil painting on paper of an elegant bouquet of roses in a decorative pitcher sitting
Category
1940s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Portrait of a Woman Reading - Bay Area Figurative School Abstract Expressionist
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Woman Reading - Bay Area Figurative School Abstract Expressionist
Abstracted
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Foam Board
H 24 in W 18 in D 0.25 in
"Woman Reading", An He, Impressionistic Portrait, Original Oil on Canvas, 40x30
By An He
Located in Dallas, TX
"Woman Reading" by An He is an original impressionistic oil on canvas portrait painting measuring
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Tea, Reading" impressionist composition of woman at the kitchen table, Tuscany
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Fenske's kitchen, reading a book and sipping on tea. Light streams in through an open window, leaving
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Canvas
H 35.5 in W 39.5 in D 1 in
'Study of a Woman Reading', American Mid-Century Figurative Interior Scene Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Modernist figural oil of a young woman shown reading a book in a rose-colored room, with a view beyond
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 27.75 in W 18 in D 0.75 in
Reading Woman - Pencil Drawing - 1940s
By Paul Morin
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is a very beautiful and delicate artwork depicting a female figure who is reading a book. The
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Mother Goose Gems Book - Three Dutch Children
Located in Miami, FL
inscription reading: “Full Page / 6 Buff / Three children sliding on the ice / upon a summer’s day” above
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Zurbo, ” The Reading”, Oil on canvas, late 19th century
By Zurbo
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
comfortably sat on wide pillows, a open book on her knees. Her friend is holding a red range and both of them
Category
Antique 19th Century Spanish Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Reading Art, Art for Book Lovers
Located in New York, NY
art lovers and bibliophiles
As every book tells a story, every book in art is part of an intriguing
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Books
Materials
Paper
Reading - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1955
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Reading is a china ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1955.
Hand-signed on the
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Original Graphic Hungarian Illustration Art Emma Heinzelmann Children's Book Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Original vintage gouache painting on poster board by Emma Heinzelmann (Hungarian, born 1930
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Original Graphic Hungarian Illustration Art Emma Heinzelmann Children's Book Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Original vintage gouache painting on poster board by Emma Heinzelmann (Hungarian, born 1930
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Reading Madonna drawing. Red chalk on paper.
By Francesco Fernandi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
by the evangelist Luke (2:16-21); calm, reading a book of hours, alone and isolated, generated a
Category
Mid-18th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Chalk
Reading Man - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1935
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Reading Man is a Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1935.
Hand-signed on the
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Reading - Mixed Media by Sergio Barletta - 1995
By Sergio Barletta
Located in Roma, IT
Reading is an original painting artwork in mixed media, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1995.
Hand
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Ink, Tempera, Watercolor
Adventure Reading, Original Painting
By Andrea Doss
Located in San Francisco, CA
describe this painting: dragon, book, fairy tale, storybook, whimsical, kids, tree, friend, reading
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art More Art
Materials
Acrylic
Summer Reading, Oil Painting
By Sherri Aldawood
Located in San Francisco, CA
, poppy, flower, sunny, John Singer Sargent, Joaquin Sorolla, spring, summer, reading, book, hat, season
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist More Art
Materials
Oil
I Like It When, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Amy Bernays
Located in Yardley, PA
reading by all accounts is the key to an open mind. :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
An example of good strategy, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Irene Raspollini
Located in Yardley, PA
is reading a very peculiar book. Acrylic, charcoal and collage on canvas. :: Painting
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
H 39.4 in W 47.2 in D 1.5 in
Richard Westall (1765-1836) RA - Early 19th Century Watercolour, Woman Reading
By Richard Westall
Located in Corsham, GB
An accomplished watercolour study depicting a women reading a prayer book. The artist captures the
Category
Early 19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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Find the exact book reading painting you’re shopping for in the variety available on 1stDibs. You can easily find an example made in the Modern style, while we also have 4 Modern versions to choose from as well. If you’re looking for a book reading painting from a specific time period, our collection is diverse and broad-ranging, and you’ll find at least one that dates back to the 18th Century while another version may have been produced as recently as the 21st Century. When looking for the right book reading painting for your space, you can search on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of brown, beige, gray and blue. Finding an appealing book reading painting — no matter the origin — is easy, but David Rosen (b.1912), Marguerite Aers, Claude Benard, Jacques Chapiro and David van der Linden each produced popular versions that are worth a look. Artworks like these — often created in paint, oil paint and canvas — can elevate any room of your home.
How Much is a Book Reading Painting?
The price for a book reading painting in our collection starts at $325 and tops out at $95,000 with the average selling for $2,600.
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