In A Girl Reading, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot uses a restraint in background colour to focus attention on the girl and her silent reading in a Neoclassical style. Cited by Monet as a great influence on Impressionism, Corot painted this work in 1850, 22 years prior to Impression, Sunrise.
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot’s A Girl Reading is in the Buhrle collection in Zürich, Switzerland.