The Flower Girl is a mid 19th-century painting by Irish-American artist Charles Cromwell Ingham.

Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts a young woman holding a bouquet of flowers.

[1] The model who sat for Inghram is not known, though one source speculates it was a Marie Perkins of New Orleans.

The girl holds in her right hand a potted fuchsia, a traditional symbol of the Roman goddess Flora and of frustrated love.

[2] The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired the painting in 1902 as a gift from William Church Osborn, a New York lawyer who would eventually become president of the Met from 1941 to 1947.