A Young Girl Reading
Jean-Honoré Fragonard · 1770
The story
Young Girl Reading, or The Reader, is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. It depicts an unidentified girl seated in profile, wearing a lemon yellow dress with white ruff collar and cuffs and purple ribbons, and reading from a small book held in her right hand. The painting is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
- Artist
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard
- Date
- 1770
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States
- Movement
- Rococo
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 81.1 × 64.8 cm
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