Shown from the hips up, a pale-skinned young woman wearing a white dress sits smiling gently at us in this vertical portrait painting. Blended strokes of pearl white, cool green, and muted blue create an overall soft, almost blurred look. The woman’s body is angled to our left, but she turns her face to look at us with brown eyes under dark, curved brows. She has a heart-shaped face with rosy cheeks, a thin, short nose, and full, pink lips, which are closed in a smile. Her honey-blond hair is swept up and back, but a few tendrils curl on her forehead and the nape of her neck. The neckline of…
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Madame Henriot

Auguste Renoir (French, 1841 - 1919)

c. 1876

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 65.8 x 49.5 cm (25 7/8 x 19 1/2 in.) ; stretcher size: 68.8 x 53.6 cm (27 1/16 x 21 1/8 in.) ; framed: 102.9 x 87 cm (40 1/2 x 34 1/4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Gift of the Adele R. Levy Fund, Inc.
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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