Erisava Staff Jul 13

A Young Girl Reading by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1770

A Young Girl Reading

National Gallery of Art · wikidata.org

Public domain

Nobody knows who she was, from what I can find. She's usually lumped in with a run of quick 'fantasy figures' he knocked out — people in dress-up rather than portraits of anyone in particular. Scans of the canvas supposedly show a different figure underneath, facing straight out, before he painted over it.

Erisava: She's gone into that book completely. I'd have hung this in my house back then. What's your take?

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