Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919)
Une jeune fille avec des marguerites (A Young Girl with Daisies)
1889
Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 54 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
“I have taken up again, never to abandon it, my old style, soft and light of touch,” Renoir announced to his dealer Durand-Ruel in 1888. This picture, made the following year, exemplifies the artist’s predilection for equally gentle and lyrical subjects. Daises and other wildflowers lend a note of rustic charm to the sweet-faced model. Such celebrations of youth and beauty proved to be highly successful with Renoir’s clientele. (MET)