Portrait of Mademoiselle Legrand - 1875
Oil on canvas
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
The other day, we went to the exhibition of Renoir at the Bridgestone Museum. Actually Renoir is not my cup of tea, but I was attracted by a girl of the poster on papers or at the station. She is Mademoiselle Legrand. We went to the exhibition only to watch this painting. She is thirteen years old at that moment. Transparent white skin, rosy cheeks and beautiful eyes. She has a noble mood. A blue scarf is a point in this mono-tone painting.
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste
(1841-1919)
French painter originally associated with the Impressionist movement. His early works were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of sparkling colour and light. By the mid-1880s, however, he had broken with the movement to apply a more disciplined, formal technique to portraits and figure paintings, particularly of women (e.g. , Bathers, 1884-87).
[Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1994]
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