May 14
Today’s Classic: Book Readers in Art (Dedicated to bookporn, tilly-and-her-books, bookstodevour, and all the bookworms around tumblr!)
1. Franz Eybl’s ‘Girl Reading’ (1850)
2. William Adolphe Bouguereau’s 'The Story Book’ (1877)
3. Charles Edward Perugini’s 'Girl Reading’ (1878)
4. Atilio Baccani’s 'Lady Reading a Book’ (1876)
5. Sir John Lavery’s 'The Red Book’ (1892)
6. Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s 'Young Girl Reading’ (1770)
7. Charles Amable Lenoir’s 'To the Return of Times Lost’ (19th Century)