"Reading Woman" (1875) - Lucius Rossi 

Rossi's small panel is filled with details. Within this extravagantly decorated interior—which includes a painted ceiling and Asian-inspired upholstery, fire screen, and fan—a lavishly dressed woman reclines on a sofa.

Her pose, costume, and luxurious surroundings suggest an expensive courtesan rather than a bourgeois wife.

Perhaps the letter she reads comes not from a husband but from a lover or a client. 

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Lucius Rossi (Italian, 1846–1913) 

Lucius Rossi was an Italian genre painter who has worked and lived in Paris.

Rossi trained at the Academy San Luca in Rome. He was strongly influenced by the Romantic painters, and also the Spanish artist Marià Fortuny.

Rossi left Italy to settle in Paris in 1867, where he began to work as a designer for magazines, including the illustrated British newspaper "The Graphic".

In Paris he became close to the European high bourgeoisie; his commissions included a portrait of the family of William Waldorf Astor, now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. 

Rossi had success at the Paris Salon and for a time worked exclusively for the leading Parisian dealer Adolphe Goupil.

His artwork, full of fragility, is characterized by his sense of details.

Feminine figure is one of his recurrent theme.

He represented woman in interior scenes usually personal or in the middle of a romantic conversation.

Rossi's Young Woman Reading, oil on panel is currently exhibited at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA.