Description
A dark-eyed young woman with short dark hair rests her cheek against her raised hand, her bare shoulders slipping from a loose white garment gathered low across her chest. She wears a pale straw hat trimmed with green foliage and a soft pink ribbon tied beneath her chin, and she looks out toward the viewer with a calm, slightly guarded expression. A warm golden-yellow wall fills most of the background, broken on the right by a loosely painted band of blue-green and cream, perhaps a curtain or screen.
Renoir models her face and shoulders with smooth, warm flesh tones while the hat and background are left looser and more broadly brushed, concentrating all the detail and light in her expression and the gesture of her resting hand.
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 50 x 61 cm canvas, drawn from the version held by the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art.



