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Look for the blue and yellow shades inside the white dress, then compare its elaborate details with the simple background.
Lucie, the youngest child of Renoir’s patron Paul-Antoine Bérard, was three when he painted this portrait. Bérard commissioned paintings of his children and their parents. Unlike a scene built around toys or play, this image gives Lucie a composed pose and directs attention to her face, hands, and white dress.
Oil on canvas · 61.3 × 49.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Lucie Berard (Child in White)
- Artist
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)
- Date
- 1883
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 61.3 × 49.8 cm (24 3/8 × 19 5/8 in.); Framed: 84.2 × 73.1 × 9.6 cm (33 1/8 × 28 3/4 × 3 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.