Description
A young woman stands facing us, bare to the waist, holding out a small gold tray with a blue and white teapot and cups on it. Her fair hair is worked into a long plait that falls forward over her shoulder, and a pale yellow band is tied round her head.
Below the waist she wears loose salmon pink trousers gathered at the ankle, a blue green sash knotted at the hip, and blue embroidered slippers. To the left is a divan with a flowered cushion and a yellow green cover; a violet blue panel closes the far left edge; everything else is rose red hanging. Renoir signed at the lower right.
The tray and the porcelain are the only hard edges in the picture. Everything else, cloth, flesh, wall, is painted with the same soft loaded brush, so the blue and white china acts as the single point of focus.



