Title

Young Woman Reading, 1875. Creator: Lucius Rossi.

Caption

Young Woman Reading, 1875. Within this extravagantly decorated interior—which includes a painted ceiling and Asian-inspired upholstery, fire screen, and fan—a lavishly dressed woman reclines on a sofa. Her pose, costume, and luxurious surroundings suggest an expensive courtesan rather than a bourgeois wife. Perhaps the letter she reads comes not from a husband but from a lover or a client.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM24A23_419

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

78,8Mb (4,6Mb) / 15,3in x 19,9in / 4604 x 5984 (300dpi)

Keywords

nature portrait Italy Italian female women woman people interior job ORIENTAL sitting plant plants arts painting relaxation country relaxing luxury art occupation reading letter museum room lying color screen seat luxurious location century profession inside sofa settee sitting room reclining living room interior design drawing room furniture concept correspondence seated one person lying down posture feet up art museum houseplant upholstery interior decoration living-room oil Painting Colour footstool 19th century Indoors Museum of Art recumbent 1870s nineteenth century upholstered courtesan drawing-room fire screen firescreen lavishness sitting-room lavish portrait oil young women young woman oil on panel Clark Art Institute Heritage Art oil on panel 19th-century Fireplace Screen Lucius Rossi Rossi Lucius