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Painting of a woman seated with two children, one pointing at an open book, beside a window in a dim interior.

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Hugues Merle's painting Reading shows a woman seated by a window with a small child on her lap and an older boy in a blue tunic pointing at an open book. The warm interior light and the red fabric of the woman's skirt frame the family group in a quiet domestic moment.

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