Girl with a Racquet
| Girl with Racket and Shuttlecock | |
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| Year | 1737 |
| Dimensions | 82 cm (32 in) × 66 cm (26 in) |
Girl with a Racquet or Girl Playing with a Racquet is an oil on canvas painting of a young girl holding a racquet and shuttlecock by the French artist Jean Siméon Chardin. He exhibited it at the Paris Salon in 1737 as a pendant to The House of Cards (Washington) - he also exhibited Woman Playing in a Fountain and The Laundress (Stockholm) in the same salon. It is now in the Uffizi in Florence, whose collections it entered in 1951.[1]
References[]
- ^ Sergio Negrini, La Galería de los Uffizi de Florencia y sus pinturas, coll. Los Grandes Museos, Éditions Noguer, 1974, (ISBN 84-279-9203-3)
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