Description
A young man with reddish brown hair stands close behind a seated young woman, both leaning in over a sheet of paper she holds up between them, absorbed in looking at it together. She wears a dark, almost black dress with a soft white lace collar and cuff; he is dressed in dark clothing too, his face lit warmly against a mustard yellow, loosely patterned wallpaper.
Renoir keeps the palette narrow and intimate, deep browns and blacks for the clothing set against the golden wall and the pale, luminous paper the pair examine, with only touches of pink in the faces and hands to bring warmth to the scene.
This studio portrait is available as a hand-painted oil reproduction or an archival canvas print, made to order in the size you choose and true to the proportions of Renoir’s original.
