Public domain art: reading

Artworks depicting reading, catalogued by the museums that hold them. Each one is free to download, with its colour palette extracted from the image and its maximum print size measured at 300 DPI.

Works in Public domain art: reading

The Hatch Family

Eastman Johnson

Story of Golden Locks

Seymour Joseph Guy

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin

Reading the News at the Weavers' Cottage

Adriaen van Ostade

"The Story of the Princess of the Blue Pavillion: The Youth of Rum Is Entertained in a Garden by a Fairy and her Maidens", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Manohar

Study in a Wood

Daniel Huntington

A Cosey Corner

Frank Millet

The True American

Enoch Wood Perry

Arrangement in Black: Girl Reading

James McNeill Whistler

Self-Portrait

Theodore Robinson

Saint Thomas Aquinas Aided by Saints Peter and Paul

Bartolomeo degli Erri

A Woman Reading

Camille Corot

Sulking

Edgar Degas

An Evening School

Gerrit Dou

Allegory of Vigilance

Jean Honoré Fragonard

The Nymph of Fontainebleau

French (Fontainebleau) Painter

Christ among the Doctors

Abraham Hondius

Grandmother's Treasure

Jozef Israëls

Book Cover

Italian (Sienese) Painter

The Letter

Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca)

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling

The Reader

Eglon van der Neer

A Sermon on Charity (possibly the Conversion of Saint Anthony)

Netherlandish (Antwerp Mannerist) Painter

The Love Letter

Jacob Ochtervelt

The Holy Family with Angels

Sebastiano Ricci

Domestic Scene

German Painter

Christ among the Doctors

Spanish (Catalan) Painter

An Interesting Story (Miss Ray)

William Wood

The Dormition of the Virgin; (reverse) Christ Carrying the Cross

Hans Schäufelein

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Otis and Child

Joseph H. Davis

Anna Dwight Weir Reading a Letter

Julian Alden Weir

Reading the Scriptures

Thomas Waterman Wood

A Girl Reading (with a Sketch of Seated Woman)

Auguste Renoir

Study for Portraits

Anonymous, French, 18th century

Portrait of Eline Marie Heger as a Child, Leaning on a Table, Looking at a Book

Johan Christian Dahl

"Laila and Majnun in School", Folio 129 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Sultan Muhammad Nur

"Laila and Majnun at School", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

Ja'far Baisunghuri

A Seated Saint Reading from a Book

Alesso Baldovinetti

Raising the Wind

Thomas Rowlandson

見立多以尽 - 洋行がしたい|Collection of Desires, Wish for Foreign Travel (Mitate Tai zukushi-yōkō ga shitai)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

絵本孝経|Picture Book of The Kōkyō [Ch. Xiao Qing], Canon of Filial Piety (Ehon kōkyō} 絵本孝経

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Learning is Wealth—Wilson, Charley, Rebecca, and Rosa, Slaves from New Orleans

Charles Paxson

États-Unis d'Amerique - Infanterie de ligne

Draner

Raising the Wind

Rudolph Ackermann, London

Yoohoo! here it is again!, from 'News of the day,' published in "Le Charivari"

Honoré Daumier

Sunday Evening

Rudolph Ackermann, London

Sunday Evening

Henry William Bunbury

The Breakfast

James Green

Madame Very Restauranteur, Palais Royal Paris and La Belle Liminaudiere au Caffee De Mille Collone, Palais Royale Paris

John Nixon

Female Politicians

William McCleary

Studious Gluttons

Samuel Alken

The News Paper

George Murgatroyd Woodward

Female Politicians

George Murgatroyd Woodward

Female Politicians

Thomas Rowlandson

Saint Mark

Domenico Beccafumi

California News

Gabriel Harrison

Nun Standing, Reading a Book (from Cropsey Album)

Benno Friedrich Toermer

Father Hecker Reading Goethe

John La Farge

Seated Man Reading a Newspaper (from Sketchbook)

Francis William Edmonds

Five Figure Sketches, Including Two Half-length Steated Male Portrait Types (from Sketchbook)

Thomas Sully