Me, trying to find an amusingly dramatic old Victorian painting about a woman reading letters to post with "me trying to catch up with my correspondence (replies)" and wow... Bertha Wegmann??
I know nothing except that she was Danish and that I love her paintings now!
(Here's the reading one I saw first, Læsende dame ved tebordet (Hanna Lucia Bauck)1899)
Her wikipedia page has a couple of more paintings, but I do advise to look her up more. Wow!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Wegmann
And this painting has it's OWN page? Fantastic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Wegmann_Painting_a_Portrait
Also, I am deeply gay but this painting especially tickles me. Beautiful!
Bertha Wegmann, "Two Friends Drinking Tea in the Artist's Studio"
@sinituulia Leeesbiaaans 😄
@sinituulia "... a 19th-century painting by Jeanna Bauck, from the late 1870s, showing Bertha Wegmann at work in their joint studio in Munich."
"The two artists also lived in the studio depicted in the painting."
Ahh, friends 😁
@sindarina Probably only very good friends! Just very close friends who constantly painted each other with grace and respect and lived together!
@sinituulia The best kind of friend!
@sinituulia such besties
Jul 3, 2026, 9:33 PM@sinituulia "She made friends with the Swedish painter, Jeanna Bauck, and took several study trips to Italy with her.[2] In 1881, they moved to Paris where Wegmann exhibited at several salons and received an "honorable mention".[3]"
ah, yes, and they were friends. Very good, indeed. Very, very good friends.
@glitc_ Very good close friends! Who lived together!
@sinituulia Accurate depiction of what scrolling fedi feels like.
@Owlor 😆 Yes!
I mean, stunning painting. But yes. That's what I thought first like "that one" and then I opened it and looked at it more, and wow. Yes, exactly.
Ah. Wonderful.
@sinituulia I love the light of this painting 🥰
@Toukomay It's so beautiful! And not shying away from some stark shadows where appropriate!