''Blond Girl with a Rose'' (French: ''Blonde à la rose'') is a late work period (1892–1919) oil painting executed in 1915–1917 by
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "R ...
and held in the collection of the
Musée de l'Orangerie
The Musée de l'Orangerie ( en, Orangery Museum) is an art gallery of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings located in the west corner of the Tuileries Garden next to the Place de la Concorde in Paris. The museum is most famous as the pe ...
, Paris.
The painting portrays Renoir's last model, the teenaged
Catherine Hessling
Catherine Hessling (born Andrée Madeleine Heuschling; 22 June 1900 – 28 September 1979) was a French actress and the first wife of film director Jean Renoir. Hessling appeared in 15, mostly silent, films before retiring from the acting prof ...
, who featured in several of his paintings during his final few years. She went on to marry Renoir's second son
Jean
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in 1920 and become a film actress.
Renoir was struck by her flawless young skin and rendered her in soft tones dominated by the colour red. The flower in her hair had by this time became a trademark symbol of Renoir to symbolise beauty.
The painting passed on the artist's death in 1919 to his youngest son Claude, who sold it to art dealer
Paul Guillaume
Paul Guillaume (1891 in Paris – 1934 in Paris) was a French art dealer. Dealer of Chaïm Soutine and Amedeo Modigliani, he was one of the first to organize African art exhibitions. He also bought and sold many works from cutting-edge artists of ...
in 1929.
See also
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List of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
This is an incomplete list of paintings by Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Renoir painted about 4000 paintings that have sold at auction for as much as $78.1 million (in 1990). The largest collection of Renoir paintings is at the Barn ...
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1915 paintings
Portraits by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Portraits of women
Paintings in the Musée de l'Orangerie