1894
oil
canvas
From the collection of Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
Young Woman with a Blue Choker is a 1894 oil by Auguste Renoir, a Impressionism work, depicting Young Adult Woman, held at Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon.
Young Woman with a Blue Choker is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, created in 1888. The work shows a young adult woman wearing a blue ribbon around her neck. We don’t know who the model was, but she also appears in Renoir’s larger composition Les Grandes Baigneuses, where she is part of a group of women at the water’s edge. That connection helps us see how Renoir liked to reuse figures across his canvases. You can see the painting at the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon.
Young Woman with a Blue Ribbon is an 1888 oil on canvas painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. The name of the model is unknown but she can also be seen in other Renoir works such as the young woman splashing the others in Les Grandes Baigneuses (Renoir, 1887). The painting itself represented a return by Renoir to a gentler, more delicate style after his years of experimenting with Impressionism. As he himself said at the time in a letter to the art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel "I have taken up again, never to abandon it, my old style, soft and light of touch.…
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born on 25 February 1841 in Limoges, the son of a tailor and a seamstress.
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