Girl with a Racquet

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]

Girl with Racket and Shuttlecock
Year1737
Dimensions82 cm (32 in) × 66 cm (26 in)

References

  1. 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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