The Metropolitan Museum of Art has made the right decision ... French artist Balthus. The 1938 painting, “Thérèse Dreaming,” shows an adolescent girl sitting on a chair, with one leg ...

Zoë Comyns catches a glimpse of paintings of girls ... Katie Ward and art historian Riann Coulter to explore the pose of the girl reader. What is she reading and why? What does the pose evoke ...

The representation of the cherubic god was depicted hanging in the background of the Dutch painter's 1657–59 composition, 'Girl Reading a ... Earring', 'The Art of Painting' and 'The Milkmaid'.

Johannes Vermeer’s Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window was ... either in a frame or as a framed fresco within the painting. At the time, it was thought that Vermeer had overpainted the ...

By Zachary Small For the past three decades, art historians ... old paintings. Last year, the Dresden State Art Collections in Germany completed a restoration of Vermeer’s “Girl Reading ...