This is 'Maid Reading in a Library' by Edouard John Mentha (1858-1915), about whom I have discovered nothing. Of course this is a companion piece to last week's painting, and like that one seems to me to be quite subversive of the prevailing ideas on social class at the period.
My Books
Harriet Devine: Looking Back: Playwrights at the Royal Court, 1956-2006
Harriet Devine Jump: Nineteenth Century Short Stories by Women: A Routledge Anthology
Harriet Devine Jump: Women's Writing of the Victorian Period 1837-1901: An Anthology
Harriet Devine Jump: Women's Writing of the Romantic Period, 1789-1836: An Anthology
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23 January 2016
Maid Reading
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