Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919)
Jeune fille au chapeau de paille (Young Woman in a Straw Hat)
c.1866
Oil on canvas, 47 x 38.4 cm
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
The model is Renoir‘s mistress, Lise Tréhot, who wears a day dress and straw hat with simple trimmings. Over her shoulder we can spot the banks of the Seine River on the outskirts of Paris, a location associated with leisure activities of the bohemian set. Painted before Renoir developed his Impressionist style, the portrait presents a solidly modeled figure rendered in broad, flat strokes. The work reveals the influence of Gustave Courbet, whom Renoir had met the year before. (BF)
See also:
• Tréhot, Lise (1848-1922)