Description
Seen in profile against a mottled olive-green background, a young woman with dark hair swept up rests her forearm on the pale back of a chair, her hand curled loosely near her wrist. She wears a rust-red, high-necked blouse with long sleeves, and her lips are parted slightly as if caught mid-conversation, giving the pose an unusually lively, spontaneous feel for a Renoir portrait.
The brushwork is soft and blended through the face and hair, while the red of the blouse is built up in loose, visible strokes that let the woven canvas show through in places, a technique typical of Renoir’s later, warmer palette.
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 35 x 27 cm canvas, drawn from the version held by the Barnes Foundation.



