Manuel Robbe, Meditated Reading

Manuel Robbe, Meditated ReadingThis early 20th century drypoint etching by eminent French artist Manuel Robbe (1872 1936) depicts a lady reading within the comfort of her own bedroom. Its a celebration of beauty, escapism, and education. Perched upon the corner of her bed alone, she disappears into literature, a world beyond the trappings of high society. As an educated woman her role is ever evolving on one hand, a fashionista, on the other, a decision maker and connoisseur.

landscape painting was seen as a second-rate endeavour but his expansive views across the British countryside were simply too large to glance over

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a sizeable bank of earth frames that side of the image

It’s a few feet deep and dug in after years of attrition

A fine early 20th-century genre scene by Austrian artist

He worked as a court engraver in Munich and received papal privilege in 1598

Art Lord of all

a story - a timeless quality

his style began to change as he embraced a new zest for expression

‘Country Lakeside Landscape’ sold for £1

Carl Budtz-Mølle spent some time in Italy where he studied the effects of the striking blue Mediterranean skies

Do you see the sheep grazing