Description
A young child with loose, copper red hair tied back with a pale yellow ribbon bends intently over a piece of white needlework held in both hands. She wears a soft pink smock with a gathered, ruffled front, and the whole figure is set against a rich, uniform deep blue background that makes the warm tones of her hair and skin glow.
Renoir paints the hair in loose, sweeping strokes of gold and copper, and keeps the cloth she is sewing almost bare white, so the viewer’s eye returns again and again to her concentrated expression. It is a simple, close-up portrait built entirely on the contrast between warm flesh tones and cool blue.
This portrait is available as a hand-painted oil reproduction or an archival canvas print, made to order in the size you choose and true to the proportions of Renoir’s original.
