Description
The entire painting is 12.8 by 8.3 centimetres, smaller than a postcard, and Renoir puts two figures in it. A pale one fills the left and centre, blonde, her face made of two pink touches and a red dot, her body a single sweep of white, rose and pale blue. A dark blue green mass of foliage rises behind her.
At the right, a second figure stands in a black coat and dark hat with a yellow accent at the chest, on ground laid in blue and yellow strokes. He is perhaps two centimetres tall on the original and he is unmistakably a person, which is the whole trick of the thing.
The strokes are loaded and wide relative to the format, and bare priming is left showing along the edges. Sage green, slate blue and cream carry the picture. A signature sits in dark paint at the lower right.



