A Young Girl Reading
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| A Young Girl Reading |
| Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1776 |
| Oil-on-canvas |
| 81.1 × 64.8 cm, 31 15/16 × 25½ in |
| National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States |
A Young Girl Reading, or The Reader, is an 18th century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. The painting was given to the National Gallery of Art by the daughter of Andrew W. Mellon following her father's death.[1]
The painting features an unidentified girl wearing a yellow saffron dress, though x-rays have revealed that the canvas originally featured a different image which Fragonard painted over.[2][3] It is one in a series of paintings by Fragonard featuring young girls.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Bergman-Carton, Janis (1995). The Woman of Ideas in French Art, 1830-1848. Yale University Press, xi. ISBN 0300053800.
- ^ Bailey, Colin B. (2003). The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting. Yale University Press, 286-287. ISBN 0300099460.
- ^ Taft, W. Stanley (2000). The Science of Paintings. Springer Press, 79-80. ISBN 0387987223.
- ^ Southgate, M. Therese (2001). The Art of Jama II: Covers and Essays from the Journal of the American Medical Association. AMA Bookstore, 70. ISBN 1579471595.
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