I’ve always loved the woman’s posture in the painting above, as I often find myself in that posture when reading.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present, Lezende Vrouwen . The site is in Dutch, but it’s not difficult to navigate around and look at all of the great paintings of women reading from the 15th century to the present.

Unfortunately, they don’t have my all-time favourite painting:

For more paintings of Reading Women see this page .