Description
A woman raises both hands to adjust a wide hat piled with orange-red flowers, her yellow dress buttoned to the throat with a red collar and cuffs. Renoir works here in pastel, the strokes left visibly linear rather than blended, against a soft blue ground.
Dated 1883, the drawing pairs its warm yellow and orange against that cool blue background, the pastel medium giving the colour a chalky, matte softness quite different from his oils. The print keeps the visible pastel strokes intact rather than smoothing them into the look of painted colour, since that texture is what marks the sheet as a drawing.



