Description
A young girl faces us with wide blue eyes and a calm, slightly guarded expression, her long dark hair falling in a thick wave over one shoulder and down past her waist, tied at the crown with a pale blue bow. Her dress slips off both shoulders in the fashion of a portrait sitting, its light blue fabric rendered in soft, chalky strokes with small bow details at the sleeves.
Renoir sets her against a warm orange-peach ground that glows behind her pale skin and dark hair, the contrast between the cool blue of the dress and bow and the warm background giving the picture its gentle, luminous quality. The handling throughout is soft and blended, closer to pastel in feeling, with little linear detail beyond her large, steady eyes.
This portrait is offered as a hand-painted oil reproduction on canvas, made by hand to capture its soft colour, or as an archival giclee canvas print from a high-resolution image. Both are reproductions for display in your home, not the original painting by Renoir.



