This painting portraits\u00a0a young woman. She is lavishly dressed in a comfortable light dress (silk?) and sits on a comfortable looking chair. With one hand, she is holding a book, with the other hand she is turning a spoon in cup of tea or maybe hot chocolate. She is reading.<\/p>\n
Behind her, a\u00a0heavy silk curtain emerges from the dark back ground and frames her on the right. A little mirror or gold framed round painting in the top left corner defines the room as an intimate \u00a0and private room, probably some kind of drawing room or “boudoir”.<\/p>\n
In short: the painting is the subtle ideal portrait of the young and educated woman of her time. We have chosen this painting for VanGoYourself \u00a0because we think that the activity of reading and having a cup of tea in the evening is so timeless, that even today you can easily connect with that unknown woman from the past.<\/p>\n
But \u00a0we have also chosen this image, \u00a0because we think that it offers great potential for the reinterpretation of the role of the modern woman. It is not only the reading devices that have changed since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This painting portraits\u00a0a young woman. She is lavishly dressed in a comfortable light dress (silk?) and sits on a comfortable looking chair. With one hand, she is holding a book, with the other hand she is turning a spoon in cup of tea or maybe hot chocolate. She is reading. Behind her, a\u00a0heavy silk curtain … Continue reading Evening Lecture NVanderpeet<\/span>