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Learn MoreJeune femme au chapeau by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- This remarkable painting captures Renoir at his most expressive and vibrant
- Young women in elaborate hats are one of the most beloved subjects of his career
- The jewel-like portrait distills Renoir’s lifelong devotion to beauty and femininity
- Similar examples can be found in prestigious collections, including the Barnes and the Tate
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841-1919 | French
Jeune femme au chapeau
(Young Woman in a Hat)
Signed "Renoir" (upper left)
Oil on canvas
Jeune femme au chapeau captures Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s enduring fascination with young women in elaborate hats, one of the most beloved subjects of his career. In this intimate oil on canvas, Renoir transforms a fashionable accessory into a dazzling study of color, texture and light. The broad yellow hat, enlivened with ribbons. . .
1841-1919 | French
Jeune femme au chapeau
(Young Woman in a Hat)
Signed "Renoir" (upper left)
Oil on canvas
Jeune femme au chapeau captures Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s enduring fascination with young women in elaborate hats, one of the most beloved subjects of his career. In this intimate oil on canvas, Renoir transforms a fashionable accessory into a dazzling study of color, texture and light. The broad yellow hat, enlivened with ribbons. . .
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841-1919 | French
Jeune femme au chapeau
(Young Woman in a Hat)
Signed "Renoir" (upper left)
Oil on canvas
Jeune femme au chapeau captures Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s enduring fascination with young women in elaborate hats, one of the most beloved subjects of his career. In this intimate oil on canvas, Renoir transforms a fashionable accessory into a dazzling study of color, texture and light. The broad yellow hat, enlivened with ribbons and floral accents, becomes the center of the composition, its sweeping brushwork framing the sitter’s softly modeled face with extraordinary vitality.
By this point in his career, Renoir had fully embraced the luminous, sensuous style that defines his mature work. Rather than precise detail, he builds the image through expressive strokes of green, gold, rose and white, giving the small canvas a remarkable sense of movement and presence. The result is at once spontaneous and deeply refined, a jewel-like portrait that distills Renoir’s lifelong devotion to beauty and femininity.
The painting also carries distinguished early provenance. It was once owned by Ambroise Vollard, the legendary Paris dealer and publisher who championed Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Picasso. Vollard also illustrated the work in his crucial 1919 publication Tableaux, Pastels & Dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, giving it an important place in the early literature on the artist.
Renoir's significance in the history of art is monumental. As a founding member of the Impressionist movement, he participated in the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874 and remained committed to the movement's core principles throughout his career. Unlike some of his contemporaries who moved toward more systematic approaches, Renoir maintained his focus on the sensual pleasures of painting—the play of light on skin, the warmth of human flesh and the joy of pure color. His work influenced generations of artists and continues to set auction records, with comparable paintings achieving impressive results, as well as residing in the world's most prestigious institutions, including the Barnes Foundation, the Musée d'Orsay and the Tate London.
Circa 1908
Canvas: 5 1/4" high x 4 1/8" wide (13.4 x 10.6 cm)
Frame: 12" high x 10 3/4" wide x 1 3/4" deep (30.5 x 27.3 x 4.5 cm)
Provenance:
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Robert de Galéa, Paris
Sale, Christie’s, London, 25 June 1985, Lot 121
Private collection, UK
M.S. Rau, New Orleans
Literature:
Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, Pastels & Dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paris, 1919, pl.52, illustrated
Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue Raisonné des Tableaux, Pastels, Dessins et Aquarelles, Paris, 2007 and 2014, Vol.IV, pl.25, no. 3244
To be included in the forthcoming second volume of the Renoir Catalogue raisonné being prepared by François Daulte
1841-1919 | French
Jeune femme au chapeau
(Young Woman in a Hat)
Signed "Renoir" (upper left)
Oil on canvas
Jeune femme au chapeau captures Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s enduring fascination with young women in elaborate hats, one of the most beloved subjects of his career. In this intimate oil on canvas, Renoir transforms a fashionable accessory into a dazzling study of color, texture and light. The broad yellow hat, enlivened with ribbons and floral accents, becomes the center of the composition, its sweeping brushwork framing the sitter’s softly modeled face with extraordinary vitality.
By this point in his career, Renoir had fully embraced the luminous, sensuous style that defines his mature work. Rather than precise detail, he builds the image through expressive strokes of green, gold, rose and white, giving the small canvas a remarkable sense of movement and presence. The result is at once spontaneous and deeply refined, a jewel-like portrait that distills Renoir’s lifelong devotion to beauty and femininity.
The painting also carries distinguished early provenance. It was once owned by Ambroise Vollard, the legendary Paris dealer and publisher who championed Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Picasso. Vollard also illustrated the work in his crucial 1919 publication Tableaux, Pastels & Dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, giving it an important place in the early literature on the artist.
Renoir's significance in the history of art is monumental. As a founding member of the Impressionist movement, he participated in the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874 and remained committed to the movement's core principles throughout his career. Unlike some of his contemporaries who moved toward more systematic approaches, Renoir maintained his focus on the sensual pleasures of painting—the play of light on skin, the warmth of human flesh and the joy of pure color. His work influenced generations of artists and continues to set auction records, with comparable paintings achieving impressive results, as well as residing in the world's most prestigious institutions, including the Barnes Foundation, the Musée d'Orsay and the Tate London.
Circa 1908
Canvas: 5 1/4" high x 4 1/8" wide (13.4 x 10.6 cm)
Frame: 12" high x 10 3/4" wide x 1 3/4" deep (30.5 x 27.3 x 4.5 cm)
Provenance:
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Robert de Galéa, Paris
Sale, Christie’s, London, 25 June 1985, Lot 121
Private collection, UK
M.S. Rau, New Orleans
Literature:
Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, Pastels & Dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paris, 1919, pl.52, illustrated
Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue Raisonné des Tableaux, Pastels, Dessins et Aquarelles, Paris, 2007 and 2014, Vol.IV, pl.25, no. 3244
To be included in the forthcoming second volume of the Renoir Catalogue raisonné being prepared by François Daulte
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Specifications
| Maker: | Renoir, Pierre-Auguste |
| Period: | 1816-1918 |
| Origin: | France |
| Type: | Paintings |
| Style: | Impressionism |
| Depth: | 1.75 in. (4.45 cm) |
| Width: | 10.75 in. (27.31 cm) |
| Height: | 12.0 in. (30.48 cm) |
| Canvas Width: | 4.180 in. (10.62 cm) |
| Canvas Height: | 5.280 in. (13.41 cm) |
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