Description
A young blue-eyed woman sits wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat trimmed with a cream-white rose, its wide oval shape framing her face. Her sheer, flesh-toned dress is scattered with small orange-red dots and gathered at the chest with a soft bow, while a thin gold bracelet circles her wrist as her hands rest near a pink rose held loosely in front of her. Behind her, a striped curtain patterned with painted roses fills the background in soft pinks, blues, and golds.
Renoir works the whole canvas in warm, closely related flesh tones, letting the hat, dress, and floral backdrop blend into one another so the woman seems to emerge from a haze of color rather than stand apart from it.
This portrait is offered as a hand-painted oil reproduction or as an archival canvas print, made to order in sizes that keep the proportions of the original 65.4 x 60 cm canvas, drawn from the version held by the Barnes Foundation.



