Young Girl Reading | |
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Artist | Jean-Honoré Fragonard |
Year | c. 1770 |
Medium | Oil-on-canvas |
Dimensions | 81.1 cm × 64.8 cm (31+15⁄16 in × 25+1⁄2 in) |
Location | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States |
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.