This document provides descriptions of 18 artworks from different time periods and cultures that depict individuals engaged in the act of reading. The artworks showcase people from various backgrounds such as gender and age reading alone or in groups. They illustrate how the universal human activity of reading has been portrayed across different societies for hundreds of years.

1. ““By reading books, you lose your old self and
you find your new self! To read is to travel
from self to another self!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

2. Reading (c.1900).
Lilla Cabot Perry (American, 1848—1933)

3. Fata citind (c.1930)
Ipolit Strâmbu (Romanian, 1871– 1934).

4. “A young lady reading a book, a spaniel on
her lap” (1858).
Charles Louis Baugniet (Belgian, 1814-

5. Classical women reading by a temple
(1889).

6. Das Lesende Mädchen. 1884.
Johann Georg Meyer von Bremen (1813-
1886).

7. I bambini Moizzi (1929).
Ambrogio Alciati (Italian, 1878-1929).

8. La lecture, Jardin du Luxembourg.
Henri Ottmann (French, 1877-1927).

9. Lady Reading in an Interior (1795-

10. Novel·la romàntica (1894).
Santiago Rusiñol (Spanish, 1861-1931).

11. Summer Reading (1919).
Frederick Frieseke (American, 1874-

12. The Journal Readers (c.1660-1670).
Jan Steen (Dutch, c.1625-1679).

13. The Reader.
Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens (Belgian,

14. Three reading women in a summer
landscape (1908). Johan Krouthén
(Swedish, 1858-1932).

15. Woman Lying on a Bench (1913). Carl
Larsson (Swedish, 1855-1919).

16. The Story Book.
Charles Edward Wilson (English, 1854-

17. Young Woman Reading.
Ivan G. Olinsky (Russian-American, 1878-

18. Gidayū Chantress Reading Books (1822).
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849).

19. Jeune Fille Lisant.
Charles-Louis-Lucien Müller (French,

20. Laura reading (1885).
Walter Crane, R.W.S. (English, 1845-

21. Literary Pursuits of a Young Lady.
Alexei Alexeivich Harlamoff (Russian,

22. Leisure Hours (1877).
John Robertson Reid (Scottish,1851-

23. The Little Convalescent (c.1873-79).
Eastman Johnson (American, 1824-1906)
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24. The Reader.
Félicie (Fournier) Schneider (French,

25. Reine Natanson (c.1913-1914).
Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868-1940).