Woman Reading

What you see

A young woman in a black hat, dark coat and fluffy gray scarf holds a very large illustrated paper in her gloved hands. The paper fills most of the left half, while her face, with pink cheeks and red lips, appears on the right, eyes on the page. Behind her is green foliage dotted with red, and a beer mug stands at lower left.

The blacks of the hat and coat frame her pale face, while the background is made of loose patches of green, red and blue. Gray pictures can barely be made out on the paper. Look for the wooden knob that holds it, at the upper left, and for the signature “manet” in the lower left corner.