Jeune Fille Lisant (Girl Reading)

Pierre Bonnard

1930; printed posthumously 1965

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A grassy field leads up to a hill in the background that contains a monument on top of it. A house sits to the left of the field. The sky is full of bulbous clouds.
Saint Lucy stands holding a dagger in her left hand, a symbol of her martyrdom, and in her right she holds a bowl with her two eyes. According to legend, she plucked out her eyes but they were miraculously restored. Agnes stands behind her, holding a lamb, a reference to her name, which means "lamb" in Latin.
Sketch of figure at a table. The figure is seen on the left of the composition near a table with a water pitcher and bowl of food. Other various shapes populate the composition.
A skeleton figure on the left holds a sword out towards a group of five figures. Two of these figures point to a bound female figure in the background.