the reader auguste renoirThe Reader depicts Henriette Henriot, a young actress and Auguste Renoir's favorite model at the time, who posed for several of his significant works. The motif of reading, particularly prized in the nineteenth century, conveys a certain modernity: the growing access of women to written culture, the press, and popular novels. This intimate theme was widely explored by the Impressionist painters and those close to them, notably Berthe Morisot, Mary