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RENOIR, Pierre-Auguste: Portrait of Jeanne Samary (La Reverie)

🖼 Portrait of Jeanne Samary (La Reverie), 1877
Oil on canvas
56 × 46 cm
Moscow, Russia

Soft brushwork captures a young woman lost in reverie, her delicate features bathed in warm light against a luminous background. Renoir's intimate portrait exemplifies Impressionist portraiture, celebrating fleeting emotional moments and the beauty of modern Parisian society during the Belle Époque.

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