Young Woman at a Fountain explained

Young Woman at a Fountain
Artist:Fleury François Richard
Year:1824
Medium:oil on canvas
Height Metric:109
Width Metric:93
Metric Unit:cm
Imperial Unit:in
Museum:Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
City:Lyon

Young Woman at a Fountain is an oil on canvas painting by French painter Fleury François Richard, from 1824. It is held in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. He painted it from one of his studies of monuments on Île Barbe. It shows a young woman filling a vessel at a fountain whose basin is an ancient Roman sarcophagus reused in the construction of the abbey on the island in 400.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Sylvie Ramond (dir.), Gérard Bruyère et Léna Widerkher, Le Temps de la peinture: Lyon, 1800-1914, Lyon, Fage éditions, 2007 (French)