
Buste de jeune fille
1886
Pierre-Auguste Renoir's 'Buste de jeune fille' (1886) is an oil painting that demonstrates the artist's refined portrait technique and his delicate handling of light. The work showcases Renoir's characteristic sensitivity to feminine beauty and Impressionist color harmonies.
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Modern Day Auction
May 17, 2023
Estimate: $300,000 to $500,000
Lot 227
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Berthe Morisot
French · b. 1841

Morisot shared Renoir's Impressionist approach to portraying young women with soft brushwork and warm luminous tones. Her intimate bust and figure portraits of feminine subjects capture the same delicate light handling and gentle sensitivity seen in this work.

Mary Cassatt
American · b. 1844

Cassatt consistently painted intimate portraits of women using the same Impressionist color harmonies and warm tonal palette that define this Renoir piece. Her close compositional focus on feminine subjects and refined handling of soft light make her work closely comparable to this portrait.

Eva Gonzalès
French · b. 1849

Gonzalès painted intimate female portraits in the French Impressionist tradition with a similarly warm and soft treatment of light on skin and delicate attention to feminine beauty. Her oil on canvas portraits from the same era share the refined classical sensitivity and gentle tonal qualities present in this Renoir bust.

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