Portrait of Mlle. Lerolle

Artist Pierre Auguste Renoir (born Limoges, France, 1841; died Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, 1919)

Datecirca 1890s

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsSight: 12 1/8 × 9 in. (30.8 × 22.9 cm)
Stretcher: 13 1/8 x 9 7/8 in. (33.3 x 25.1 cm)
Frame: 19 5/8 x 16 5/8 x 2 1/8 in. (49.8 x 42.2 x 5.4 cm)

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. W. Hilding Lindberg

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Portrait

Object number1983.1.37

DescriptionA half-portrait of a young woman wearing a red dress with a large black ornament (ribbon?) and sash on her left shoulder. Her brown hair is piled up on her head. She looks directly out at the viewer. This is one of several portraits Renoir made of Yvonne and Christine Lerolle, the daughters of M. Lerolle, one of his patrons. This is probably Yvonne.

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