Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary
| Year of creation: | 1877 |
| Original size: | 56.0 cm x 46.0 cm |
| Painting style: | Impressionism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow |
Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir from 1877. The original measures 56.0 x 46.0 cm, is recorded under inventory number Ж-3405 and is held by the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. Our art reproduction Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary is a hand-painted painting in oil on canvas, in eight sizes from 60 x 70 to 120 x 150 cm.
A young woman leans forward and rests her chin on her right hand. Reddish-brown hair frames her face loosely; her dress is low-cut and blue-green, with pink at the shoulder, and a thin gold bracelet is at her wrist. The ground is not a room but a warm pink surface run over with loose blue-green arabesques. The signature and date stand at the upper left.
Our version is not a print. In this portrait the difference is easy to see: the face is built from thin, soft layers, the ground from broad, quick strokes of oil colour laid side by side with a brush. The paint keeps that difference in thickness, which printed paper cannot imitate, so an oil painting on canvas reads differently under changing light than a flat printed surface does.
The warm portrait, in pink and green, works well in a living room, a bedroom, or a dressing room, where a single face holds the wall without restlessness. For a smaller wall 65 x 80 cm is enough; above a larger piece of furniture we recommend 90 x 110 cm.
We paint to order, and in other sizes on request. Before despatch we send you a photograph of the finished canvas for your approval. Every art reproduction Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary arrives ready to hang, stretched on a wooden frame.
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