Young Woman Sewing
- 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.)
- Genre
- painting
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
oil paintings (visual works)paintingred (color)nineteenth centuryblue (color)19th centurypaintChicago World's FairscanvasImpressionismlaborCentury of Progressjewelryblueyellow (color)vaseoil on canvasfrenchTableoil paint (paint)painting (image making)painting techniquesflowersstill lifewomenworld's fairsinteriorsewingoil paintingeuropean paintingTextileeveryday life (genre)foliagepurple (color)work
About
The model for this elegant painting of a French bourgeois woman sewing may be Aline Charigot, whom Pierre-Auguste Renoir would go on to marry. The artist treated his domestic subject—a middle-class woman embroidering a textile—with vibrant color, light-filled atmosphere, and freely handled paint. Cobalt blue dominates the composition with striking contrasts of red and spare touches of yellow, relying on the optical effect produced by the close proximity of primary colors to enliven the composition and increase the sense of direct observation and spontaneity.
