Scientist. Scientist and a book in your hands!. Elizabeth Merkuryevna Boehm (Endaurova) (1843-1914)

The picture has something of this: people, text, paper, engraving, literature, antique, ancient, lithograph, vintage, retro, man, woman, artistic.
Perhaps it’s a painting of a boy sitting at a table with a book in front of him and writing on a piece of paper on the wall behind him.