Painting and Sculpture

A Young Girl Reading

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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See also

• ▸Isabel Bishop
• ▸Cuban cactus scrub
• ▸General Augereau at the Bridge of Arcole

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