Jeune femme assise jouant de la guitare belongs to a group of works that Renoir painted of women and men playing the guitar. Renoir’s appreciation for “La Belle Otéro,” a dancer at the Folies-Bergère who was celebrated at the time as the embodiment of Spanish seduction, is thought to have inspired these works. Although the model in the present work lacks the overtly Spanish costume seen in Jeune espagnole avec une guitare, 1898 (National Gallery, Washington, D.C.), her outfit still gives the impression of a costume piece. This dramatic clothing contrasts the modest, informal modern dresses that the painter used in his numerous scenes from this period of young bourgeois women talking, reading and sitting together.

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