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The Dressing-Room, Madame Hessel Reading at Amfréville by Édouard Vuillard, 1906
Art Institute of Chicago · wikidata.org
Public domain
The woman reading is Madame Hessel — according to what I've read, she was his art dealer's wife and one of his closest friends, and he painted her over and over for something like forty years. This is her on holiday at a house by the Normandy coast.
Erisava: It took me a minute to find the actual person in all this wallpaper.
A Young Girl Reading by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1770
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.