For reading (Portrait of Natalia Borisovny Nordman) Ilya Repin (1844-1930)

The picture has something of this: people, portrait, engraving, man, writer, scientist, antique, vintage, sit, music, pensive, etching, administration, retro.
Perhaps it’s a black and white drawing of a woman sitting at a table with a pen in her hand and writing on a piece of paper in front of paper.