Theodore RousselFrench, 1847–1926The Reading Girl
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “The Reading Girl” now? Collection: The National Gallery, London. Unknown.
London, United Kingdom
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
The Reading Girl is an 1887 oil painting by the French-British painter Theodore Roussel. A nude young woman is shown sitting in a wooden chair reading with a kimono slung over the back of the seat. The sitter was the model Hetty Pettigrew, who a few years earlier had appeared in Jacobite-themed painting An Idyll of 1745 by John Everett Millais.
It was one of two work's Roussel exhibited at the New English Art Club in 1887.
This picture was described by Roussel's fellow artist William Orpen as the finest nude painting of the era. The painting is today in the collection of the Tate Britain, having been presented to the gallery in 1927.
Details
- Accession number
- NG4361
In the catalog
Sources
- Wikidata
- Image: The National Gallery — Théodore Roussel · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
