Tuesday 16 December 2014

Reading women


I seem to have given the impression that I collect postcards of women or girls reading because just after Eva's comment the other day (Eva of Mail Adventures), I received this postcard with 54 different pictures of women reading!  I've scanned it at a relatively high resolution so that if you click on the image you should be able to see better.

Of course they aren't identified on the back so now starts the challenge of working out who they all are.  For my own reference purposes I've allocated them A-F for rows and 1-9 columns.

Row A
1. Marie Adelaide of France by Jean-Etienne Liotard
2. In Slaap Gevallen by Kik Zeiler, 1948
3. An Interlude by William Sergeant Kendall, 1907
4. De gezusters Arntzenius ('lezende zusjes') or The Arntzenius sisters (reading sisters) - WB Tholen, 1895
5. The Magdalen Reading by Rogier van der Weyden, about 1435
6. Helene Vary by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1889
7. Reading a Story by James Tissot, 1878
8. Alice by George Dunlop Leslie, 1879
9. The Maid With the Golden Hair by Frederick Lord Leighton

Row B
1. Virgin and Child, by William Dyce
2. Gare St Lazare, by Edouard Manet 1873
3. From Ot and Sien, Cornelis Jetses 1873-1955
4. The Reader Crowned with Flowers, or Virgil's Muse, by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot 1845
5. Girl Reading, Jean-Baptiste Camille-Corot, 1850/1855
6. Mrs. Duffee Seated on a Striped Sofa, Reading, by Mary Cassatt, 1876
7. Ballet Class, the Dance Hall [detail] by Edgar Dégas, 1880
8. Reading by Lamplight, by George Clausen, 1909
9. The Novel Reader, by Vincent van Gogh, 1888

Row C
1. Woman by a Goldfish Tank, by Lovis Corinth, 1911
2. La Liseuse [The Reader], by Alfred Emile Stevens, about 1860
3. Meditation: Madame Monet on a Couch, by Claude Monet, 1871
4. Madonna mit den Erdbeeren [Madonna with Strawberries, by "The Upper Rhenish Master", c. 1425.
5. St Catherine, by "The master of the Half length", 1830s
6. Lezende Vrouw[Reading Woman], by Matthieu Wiegman, 1925
7. Intérieure, by Edgar Fernhout, 1951
8. Mary Reading, by Lorenzo Costa, c. 1515
9. Interior with poppies and reading woman (Lizzy Hohlenberg), by Anna Ancher, 1905

Row D
1. The Novel: A Lady in a Garden Reading a Book, Frank Dicey,
2. Home Devotion by Adolf Hölzel
3. L'Edition de Luxe, by Lilian Westcott Hale, 1910
4.Young Girl Reading by Gustav Adolph Hennig, 1828
5.The Little Convalescent by Eastman Johnson, 1872-1880
6. Leisure, by William W Churchill, 1910
7. Young Woman Reading, by Mary Cassatt, 1876
8. The Reading Lesson, Auguste Toulmouche
9. Girl Reading, by Edmund Tarbell, 1909

Row E
1. Woman Reading by Léon Kamir Kaufman, 1921
2. Woman Reading by Candlelight by Peter Ilsted, 1908
3. A Quiet Read in a Chinoiserie Interior, by Georges Croegaert, 1888
4. ?
5. Woman reading, by J Paul Allinson, 1940
6. Repose, by Jacques Cancaret
7. Girl with a Book by William Merritt Chase, 1902
8. La Lettre by Henry Lerolle
9. The Browning Readers by William Rothenstein, 1900

Row F
1. Elegant Woman in Library by Edouard Gelhay
2. La lecture by Henri Fantin-Latour
3. Portrait of Katie Lewis by by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1886
4. Val d'Arconville by Theodore Robinson, 1888
5. Mademoiselle Guillaumin Reading by Armand Guillaumin, 1907
6. Woman Reading by a Window by David Alison
7. Young Woman Reading a Letter by Jean Raoux, 1717-1719
8. Woman Reading on Subway by Silvina Resnik
9. At The Window by Hans Olaf Heyerdahl, 1881

All but one, I think, I've found!  Some were easy, some were really difficult.

3 comments:

  1. You did a hard work, I'm impressed! This post will be a reference in the future, when I receive an unidentified reading woman... ;-)

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  2. Gosh - you did work hard. E4 is 'Girl in red' (1926) by Alice Ruggles Sohier (1880-1969)

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  3. How wonderful to have all these postcards!!

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