Description
Renoir paints a young girl in strict profile, her dark hair loose and gathered low at the back, a few strands catching red-brown highlights against her pale skin. Her lips are slightly parted, her cheek and chin flushed with pink, and a plain white garment with a soft blue-grey fold slips off one shoulder. The background is split cleanly in two: a mottled green field of brushwork behind her face, and a warm ocre-orange wall behind her hair and neck, giving the portrait its quiet, decisive contrast.
This working sketch of a head has the loose, rapid brushwork typical of Renoir’s studies, freely worked strokes describing hair and flesh rather than fine detail, which makes it a striking subject for a reproduction meant to be seen up close.
We offer this painting as a hand-painted oil reproduction on canvas, worked by hand to reproduce the original brushwork, or as an archival canvas print. Both are made to order in the size of your choice, so you can scale the portrait to fit your wall.



