Sunday, August 9, 2015

Les Jeunes Soeurs

From The Metropolitan Museum of Art:
This double portrait, which may date to the late 1760s, was engraved with the title "Les Jeunes Soeurs" or "The Young Sisters." While we do not know who the girls were, we do know—from the evidence of an oil sketch and a copy in pastels, as well as from the engraving—that the canvas has been cut down. Originally, Fragonard showed the older girl at full-length and the younger one seated on a wheeled wooden horse in an elegant interior. (Read more.)
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