Description
A young soldier stands in three-quarter view, glancing back over his shoulder with the faint trace of a smile. He wears a dark blue-green jacket closed with small brass buttons, bright vermilion-red trousers, and a small cap set back on his cropped dark hair, a slim pipe raised to his lips in one hand while the other rests in his trouser pocket.
Renoir sets the figure against a loosely brushed sage-green wall, with a doorway or mirrored alcove glimpsed at the right edge of the canvas, hinting at another room beyond. The rapid brushwork and the contrast between the somber jacket and the vivid red trousers give the sitter an easy, unposed presence.
This reproduction of The Young Soldier, painted in 1880 and held by the National Gallery of Art, is offered as a hand-painted oil reproduction on canvas or as an archival giclee canvas print, built to order at the size your wall calls for.



