Woman Reading (La Liseuse) is an oil-on-board painting executed in 1895 by the French artist Henri Matisse.Klein, John (2001). Matisse Portraits. Yale University press. p. 38. . It is displayed at the Musée Matisse, in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, having been on loan from the Centre Pompidou 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.
See also List of works by Henri Matisse
References
External links Le Câteau-Cambrésis, musée Matisse, Dépôt du Centre Pompidou, 2002