Description
Painted in 1887, this small oil study shows a young woman’s head turned in strict left profile, her dark brown hair swept back into a soft chignon at the nape of her neck. Renoir builds her face with warm pink and cream tones against a loosely brushed backdrop of olive green and ochre, the vertical strokes behind her suggesting foliage or drapery rather than any specific room.
Her lips are slightly parted and a single wisp of hair curls loose at her temple, the whole picture reading as an intimate, unposed study of a head rather than a formal portrait.
This head study is available as a museum-quality reproduction, hand-painted in oils on canvas by our studio artists, or produced as an archival giclee canvas print. Each piece is made to order in a range of sizes and arrives ready to hang, so you can bring this 1887 profile study into your own home.



