Young Girl Reading

Jean-Honoré Fragonard · c. 1769 · oil on canvas

Young Girl Reading, or The Reader, 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.

Image courtesy of The National Gallery of Art.

Available as a made-to-order museum-quality canvas print: stretched or framed.