Description
A woman is glimpsed close and slightly from below, seen in profile with an elegant black and gold hat and a red ribbon knotted at her throat over a blue coat, a wisp of auburn hair escaping at the back of her neck. Behind her, cropped and loosely painted, a crowded Paris square opens out, filled with strolling figures in top hats and long coats beneath rows of trees.
Renoir sets the sharply observed foreground head against a hazy, sunlit crowd built from quick, blurred touches of cream, tan, and grey, a snapshot like contrast between the single passerby and the anonymous bustle of the street around her.
What is offered here is not the original but a faithful reproduction: a hand-painted oil version on canvas, recreated stroke by stroke by a professional painter, or an archival canvas print made with fade-resistant pigment inks, available in a range of sizes.



