Girl Holding Lemons

The painting shows a young woman with dark, wavy hair wearing a white, softly draped garment, and she holds several yellow lemons with a few green leaves in her hands. She faces the viewer with a calm, direct gaze, set against a lavender-toned landscape with distant mountains that provides a cool backdrop to the warm flesh tones and fruit. The work features Bouguereau’s smooth, polished brushwork and refined modeling of light and form, characteristic of late 19th-century Academic realism, with careful attention to anatomy and a harmonious color palette.