
by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1770
French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard painted this intimate portrait around 1770, capturing a young woman absorbed in her book. She wears a lemon-yellow dress with purple ribbons, her profile illuminated by soft light. The identity of the sitter is unknown.
Fragonard was the master of Rococo painting, and this work shows his virtuoso brushwork at its best. The buttery strokes of yellow paint, the feathery treatment of the collar, and the soft modeling of the face reveal an artist painting with complete freedom and confidence.
It is one of the most beloved works at the National Gallery of Art and exemplifies the refined sensibility of 18th-century French painting.
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Giovanni Battista Moroni
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Edgar Degas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Bronzino
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Berthe Morisot
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Other masterpieces from the Rococo movement

Thomas Gainsborough, 1770
The Huntington, San Marino

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1717
Louvre, Paris, Paris

François Boucher, 1742
Louvre, Paris, Paris

Thomas Gainsborough, 1787
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

François Boucher, 1752
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1719
Louvre, Paris, Paris

Joshua Reynolds, 1776
National Gallery, London

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1782
National Gallery, London
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