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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.
Suffused with effortless grace, the model in Fragonard’s Young Girl Reading embodies the cultured lifestyle treasured by high society in pre-Revolutionary France.
Young Girl Reading. Fragonard’s brushwork is as much the subject of this painting as the young woman. A flurry of rapid marks captures her blushing face. Bold, fluid strokes of unblended color...
The Gallery’s Young Girl Reading—a representation of a demure model in a lemon-yellow dress seated at a window ledge, a book in one upraised hand—has always been loosely associated with the fantasy figures on formal terms. On the one hand, compelling evidence supported a connection between the two.
16 Απρ 2013 · Young Girl Reading, or The Reader (French: La Liseuse), is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. It was purchased by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC in 1961 using funds donated by Ailsa Mellon Bruce, the daughter of Andrew W. Mellon, following her father's death.
One of Jean-Honoré Fragonard's most simple yet elegant paintings, Young Girl Reading has captivated audiences throughout the ages with its warmth and sensuality.
1 Ιαν 2009 · The girl in the National Gallery’s painting picture is similar in physiognomy, pose, and activity to the one who appears in a wash drawing but is surrounded by a large group of men, women, and children who listen to her recitation from a letter (see Ananof 1961 – 1970, 2: no. 640, fig. 518). 8.
