Marguerite Gérard (1761 – 1837)

Oil painting on canvas. A woman sits reading

Marguerite Gérard The Reader Paris, about 1817 oil on canvas  32 x 24 cm unframed; 42 x 33.5 cm framed In the privacy of her tastefully uncluttered home, a young woman intently reads a book. Her delicately ringleted head cranes towards the pages, slightly disturbing her otherwise impeccably upright figure, which sports a fashionable late-18th-century … Read more