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Portrait de femme en noir
Woman in Black
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1876
Hermitage Museum
Saint Petersburg, Russia
About this painting
Renoir renders the sitter's black dress not as flat black but as shifting greys and blue-greens caught by light, with true black reserved only for the deepest shadows.
Painting Details
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
65.5 × 55.5 cm (25.8 × 21.9 in)
Painted at
Paris, France
Current location
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
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