Description
A young woman with loose auburn hair sits with her shoulders and chest bare, gathering a white cloth across her lap with both hands as she turns to glance to one side. Her pale skin is built from warm, creamy strokes set against bands of blue sea and a greenish gold horizon, suggesting a bather pausing on a shoreline after swimming.
Painted in 1883, the picture belongs to Renoir’s series of informal bather portraits, where a single model stands in for the pleasures of light on skin and water. Her coppery hair falls across her shoulder in loose strands, echoed by soft red-gold touches in the shadows of the drapery.
The original, measuring 60 by 54 cm, is reproduced here as a hand-painted oil or an archival canvas print, made to order in the size you request, true to the original’s proportions.



