A young woman with pale, peachy skin and flushed cheeks sits facing our right in profile as she plays a guitar in this horizontal painting. The scene is painted with blended strokes, giving it a soft look and making some of the details indistinct. At the center of the composition, the guitar rests against the woman’s shoulder so it almost spans the width of the painting. The instrument has a caramel-brown body, and the dark brown neck lightens to slate gray by the sound hole. The woman’s eyes are lowered as she looks toward her left hand, her long fingers pinning the strings along the…
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Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar

Auguste Renoir (French, 1841 - 1919)

1898

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 55.6 x 65.2 cm (21 7/8 x 25 11/16 in.) ; framed: 81.9 x 92.1 x 10.1 cm (32 1/4 x 36 1/4 x 4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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