Description
A young girl with tousled blonde bangs leans forward, her chin resting on her folded arms atop a reddish-brown table, her eyes lowered as if lost in thought or half-asleep. A dark hat with a soft, feathered crown sits on her head, and her teal-blue jacket with pale cuffs stands out against the warm surface beneath her.
Worked entirely in pastel, the drawing has a soft, powdery texture quite different from Renoir’s oil paintings; the hatching strokes of blue, ochre, and rose remain visible across her sleeve and the tabletop, while her face is built up more smoothly in pale flesh tones with touches of pink at the cheeks. The background is left loose and sketch-like, little more than pale strokes of paper showing through.
This pastel portrait, held in the Collection Bemberg, is reproduced here as a hand-painted oil reproduction on canvas, translating its soft colour into paint, or as an archival giclee canvas print made from a high-resolution scan. Both are reproductions for your wall, not the original work.



