Description
Renoir paints a young girl facing forward with her dark hair parted neatly in the center, her large dark eyes and a faint, warm smile giving the portrait its title. She wears a dark blue-black dress buttoned at the front, closed at the neck by a soft white ruffled collar.
The background is kept simple, brushed in warm olive and tan tones that set off the pale luminous skin of her face, in the small, direct type of portrait Renoir painted often in the late 1870s.
What is offered here is not the original but a faithful reproduction: a hand-painted oil version on canvas, recreated stroke by stroke by a professional painter, or an archival canvas print made with fade-resistant pigment inks, available in a range of sizes for any wall.



