Description
A seated woman folds her hands quietly in her lap, dressed in a loose coral-orange gown open at the chest to reveal a white lace-trimmed bodice pinned with a small pink flower. A wide-brimmed dark blue hat, piled with red and pink silk flowers, frames her round, rosy-cheeked face and softly curled hair.
Renoir surrounds her with a loosely brushed backdrop of green and gold, the colours streaked and unblended in the manner of his late work, so the whole canvas glows with warm, saturated colour. The coral of her dress dominates the composition, built up in broad, confident strokes that leave much of the fabric’s folds only loosely suggested.
This portrait, Portrait de femme assise, is offered as a hand-painted oil reproduction on canvas, painted by hand to recreate its warm, saturated palette, or as an archival giclee canvas print made from a high-resolution scan. Both are reproductions for your own wall, not the original 1917 painting.



