Description
A young woman leans her forearms on the back of a chair, turning her head to glance sideways at the viewer. She wears an elaborate wide-brimmed hat in soft lavender and pale gold tones, and a loose white blouse with a ruffled high collar, its fabric caught in broad, creamy strokes of paint. A small blue earring catches the light against her cheek.
Behind her, Renoir dissolves the setting into vertical bands of blue, ochre, and deep red, suggesting a curtained interior without describing it in any detail, so that all attention stays on the sitter’s face and the extraordinary construction of her hat. The paint handling throughout is loose and confident, with the hat’s trimmings built from quick overlapping dabs of yellow and violet-grey.
Held at the National Museum of Western Art, this portrait is available as a reproduction on museum-quality canvas. Woman with a Hat can be ordered in a range of sizes up to large formats, made to order and shipped worldwide.



