Description
Jeune fille au chien shows a young girl seated outdoors on a low mound, a black dog with white markings on its chest lying at her feet. She wears a dark dress with long sleeves and a white lace collar draped over her shoulders like a shawl, and holds a small cluster of yellow flowers along with a dark hat in her lap.
Renoir sets the pair against a wooded background of loosely brushed blue-green foliage and warm ochre light, the whole scene rendered in soft, blended strokes. The dog’s black coat and the girl’s dark dress anchor the composition against the lighter, dappled setting behind them.
Painted in 1888, the work is reproduced as a hand-painted oil on canvas or as an archival print, offered in a range of sizes to suit a wall of any scale.



