Description
Facing the viewer directly, a young boy with a thick, curling mop of auburn hair and a straight fringe looks out with dark, steady eyes and softly flushed cheeks. He wears a dark navy sailor suit fastened with two gold buttons, its collar wrapped snugly around his neck.
Renoir paints the background in loose, dabbed strokes of green, gold, and blue, a shimmering, unfixed field that sets off the more solid, rounded modelling of the boy’s face. The navy of the suit is built from layered strokes of blue and violet, giving real weight to the fabric against the airy backdrop.
This portrait is offered as a hand painted oil reproduction on canvas or as an archival giclee canvas print; it is a reproduction of Renoir’s original work, not the painting itself.



