Description
Rendered in loose pastel strokes, this small study shows a toddler’s round face turned slightly to the side, reddish-brown hair falling across a broad forehead. A white ruffled collar gathers at the neck, tied with a pale blue bow that echoes the blue smudged into the background above the child’s shoulder. Renoir works fast here, leaving the pastel marks visible rather than blended, so the sketch keeps a spontaneous, unfinished energy.
Colour carries the mood more than line: warm peach and rose in the skin, cool blue and olive green scumbled loosely behind the head, and chalky white in the collar. It reads as a quick, affectionate study rather than a formal portrait, the kind of sketch made in a few sittings.
We reproduce this study as a hand-painted oil reproduction on canvas, matching its loose, sketch-like brushwork by hand, or as an archival giclee canvas print taken from a high-resolution scan. Both are reproductions made for your home; the original pastel is not included.



