Laudator Temporis Acti

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875), Moine italien assis, lisant, in Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo:

Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), Two Monks Reading, in Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (A482):


Théophile Gide (1822-1890), Le Réfectoire de la Grande Chartreuse, la Dictée, in Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes:


François Marius Granet (1775-1845), Hermit Reading, in Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (accession number PD.65-1997):


Eduard von Grützner (1846-1925), Lesender Prämonstratenser Mönch, sold by Neumeister:


Hans Adolf Hornemann (1866-1913), Lesender Mönch, sold by Neumeister (Munich; March 12, 2008; lot 672):


Franz Reichardt (1825-1887), Pater Prior in der Klosterbibliothek, sold by Zeller (Lindau; December 6, 2012; lot 2647):


Alessandro Sani (1856-1927), In der Klosterbibliothek, sold by Van Ham (Cologne; November 16, 2012, lot 846):


Carl Schleicher, Ein lesender Mönch, sold by Dorotheum (Vienna; April 28, 2011; lot 216):


Fritz Wagner (1896-1939), Kardinal mit drei Mönchen in einer Klosterbibliothek, sold by Hampel (Munich; March 25, 2011; lot 472):


Fritz Wagner (1896-1939), Mönch bei der Lektüre, sold by Van Ham (December 15, 2001; lot 443):


Reinhard Sebastian Zimmerman (1815-1893), Monastic Library, in Victoria and Albert Museum, London (museum number 1064-1886):


Anonymous, A Smiling Monk Reading, in National Trust Collections (inventory number 744023), on exhibit at Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire:

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