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The Knitting Girl

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The Knitting Girl (French: La Couseuse) is an oil-on-canvas painting executed in 1869 by the French academic artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau. It is currently held in the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, in the United States.

French: Tricoteuse The Knitting Girl title QS:P1476,fr:"Tricoteuse" label QS:Lfr,"Tricoteuse" label QS:Len,"The Knitting Girl"
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The Knitting Girl (French: La Couseuse) is an oil-on-canvas painting executed in 1869 by the French academic artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau. It is currently held in the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, in the United States. 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “The Knitting Girl”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

The Knitting Girl is painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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