# Head of a Young Girl, in Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted this in about 1890, aged 49. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> A young woman with glossy brown hair gathered into a bun is seen in profile, her cheeks rosy and her lips slightly parted, one arm resting on a table. Behind her, the background breaks into swirling forms of orange, red and blue-grey, perhaps a patterned hanging, treated as pure colour.

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## The work

- Date: c. 1890
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 42.6 x 33.3 cm (16 3/4 x 13 1/8 in.) framed: 67.6 x 58.7 x 6.9 cm (26 5/8 x 23 1/8 x 2 11/16 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948.18.1
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Pierre-Auguste Renoir](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/pierre-auguste-renoir), French, 1841–1919

Renoir began as a painter of porcelain in Paris, then studied in Gleyre’s studio, where he met Monet, Sisley and Bazille. In the 1870s he was a central figure of Impressionism, painting Parisians at leisure in dappled light.

12 works in the collection.

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