Description
A woman with auburn hair pinned up in loose curls turns her head slightly, her dark eyes and calm mouth catching soft light. She wears a deep red dress with a high, snugly wrapped collar that rises almost to her jaw, one shoulder draped with a pale cream sash or scarf that falls diagonally across her chest.
Renoir sets her against a pale, dry-brushed wall of grey-green and soft yellow, the background left thin and loosely worked so that the saturated red of the dress dominates the whole composition. The paint on the dress is rich and fluid, with broad highlights of pink and white describing the fall of the fabric across her shoulders.
This portrait, Portrait de femme brune en robe rouge, is offered as a hand-painted oil reproduction on canvas, painted by hand to recreate the deep red of the dress, or as an archival giclee canvas print made from a high-resolution scan. Both are reproductions for your own wall, not the original 1892 painting.



