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A Young Girl Reading or The Reader (French: La Liseuse) is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. The painting was given to the National Gallery of Art by the daughter of Andrew W. Mellon following her father’s death.The painting features an unidentified girl wearing a yellow saffron dress though x-rays have revealed that the canvas originally featured a different image which Fragonard painted over. It is one in a series of paintings by Fragonard featuring young girls.
