Romaine Lacaux
1864
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- 81.3 × 65 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-109045
This painting may be Renoir's earliest signed canvas. Its sensitive display of color and light communicates an ideal of delicate, youthful beauty. The luminous tones of the background drapery and of the child's white blouse result from the artist's careful observation of reflected light and color on translucent materials. The delicate nuances of color, particularly in the young girl's face, reveal Renoir's previous training as a decorator of porcelain. He painted this portrait, commissioned by the vacationing Lacaux family, during his stay at an artist's colony in the village of Barbizon, nea…
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, 1942.1065
Registry history
- 1864 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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