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Compare the small touches around the sewing hands with the flowers behind them, then look for red accents among the many blues.
The sitter may be Aline Charigot, who later married Renoir, but the identification is not certain. The painting presents needlework as an absorbed domestic activity. Blue spreads through the furniture, clothing, and background, with small red and yellow accents keeping this quiet scene full of color.
Oil on canvas · 61.4 × 50.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Young Woman Sewing
- Artist
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)
- Date
- 1879
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 61.4 × 50.5 cm (24 3/16 × 19 7/8 in.); Framed: 84.2 × 75 × 10.5 cm (33 1/8 × 29 1/2 × 4 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial 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.