“For Renoir, female portraits offered a pathway to exploring the intricate relationships of color, paint and brushwork in the creation of form… Over the course of his studies during the 1880s, Renoir began to grow increasingly interested in the tactility of his sitter’s flesh, drawing inspiration from the art of Titian, Peter Paul Rubens and Diego Velázquez, as he sought a way of expressing a sense of touch through visual means alone. In the present work, Renoir achieves this impression…, capturing the warmth and texture of his model’s skin through a subtle layering of opalescent color…of pale mauves, creams and pink tones that creates a shimmering, lustrous surface that seems to evoke the fluttering passage of light as it crosses her soft, supple skin.”

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