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image of Young Girl Reading
Auguste Renoir (artist)
French, 1841 - 1919
Young Girl Reading, c. 1888
oil on canvas
painted surface: 14.8 x 10.7 cm (5 13/16 x 4 3/16 in.) overall size: 15.5 x 11 cm (6 1/8 x 4 5/16 in.) framed: 30.8 x 29.5 x 5.1 cm (12 1/8 x 11 5/8 x 2 in.)
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
1970.17.71

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(Ambroise Vollard [1867-1939], Paris). Capt. Edward H. Molyneux [1891-1974], Paris, by 1952;[1] sold 15 August 1955 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York; bequest 1970 to NGA.

[1]Exhibited as part of the Molyneux collection in 1952 at the National Gallery of Art.

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