''Woman Reading'' (''La Liseuse'') is an oil-on-board painting executed in 1895 by the French artist
Henri Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a drawing, draughtsman, printmaking, printmaker, and sculptur ...
.
[Klein, John (2001). ''Matisse Portraits''. Yale University press. p. 38. .] It is displayed at the
Musée Matisse, in
Le Cateau-Cambrésis
Le Cateau-Cambrésis (, before 1977: ''Le Cateau'') is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. The term Cambrésis indicates that it lies in the county of that name which fell to the Prince-Bishop of Cambrai. Le Cateau station has ...
, having been on loan from the
Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...
since 2002.
[ ] It shows a woman, dressed in black, seated and reading, with her back to the viewer, in the calmness of a somewhat cluttered room. Matisse incorporated a self-portrait into the painting in the form of a framed drawing hanging on the wall at the upper left.
References
External links
Le Câteau-Cambrésis, musée Matisse, Dépôt du Centre Pompidou, 2002
1895 paintings
Paintings by Henri Matisse
Paintings in the collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne
Paintings in Hauts-de-France
Books in art
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