In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Renoir painted children consistently throughout his career, winning him much admiration during his own lifetime and in the early decades of the 20th century. "Renoir asserts the dignity of the most fundamental things of life—summer sun, childhood, the beauty of flesh," wrote a critic for the Art Digest in 1935; another praised Renoir's ability to capture "the softness, the fleeting charm of the child." The latter observation holds especially true in this canvas. The pretty sitter, with her beribboned neck and partially exposed shoulder, is on the cusp of adolescence.
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Auguste Renoir — Child with Brown Hair
Auguste Renoir — Head of a Young Girl
Édouard Manet — Young Girl on a Bench (Fillette sur un banc)
Auguste Renoir — A Girl with a Watering Can
Auguste Renoir — Young Girl Reading
Auguste Renoir — Suzanne Valadon
Auguste Renoir — Madame Henriot
Mary Cassatt — Simone in a Blue Bonnet (No. 1)
Auguste Renoir — The Dancer
Édouard Manet — Little Girl in an Armchair
Auguste Renoir — Girl with a Hoop
William Glackens — Lenna with Basket of Flowers
