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A Young Girl Reading - Jean-Honoré Fragonard
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A Young Girl Reading

Jean-Honoré Fragonard · c. 1770

Oil on canvas · 81.1 × 64.8 cm

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Where to see it

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

About the painting

Young Girl Reading, or The Reader (French: La Liseuse), 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.

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Style, subject and colours

RococoGenre scenePortraitWomanChildBrown

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Image: Jean-Honoré Fragonard; Wikimedia Commons · public domain

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