19th Century Images of Crocheting

Girl Crocheting
Edmund Charles Tarbell

 

au Jeune Fille au Crochet
Adolph William Bouguereau

 

Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly

Lydia  Crocheting

Both of the Lydia paintings are by American artist Mary Cassatt, whose work is luminous. Mary was very close to her sister Lydia, who died at a young age. To learn more about both women and their lives in the Paris art world, I recommend the recent novel Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman.