''Young Woman with a Blue Ribbon'' is an 1888 oil on canvas painting 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 ...

, now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. The name of the model is unknown but she can also be seen in other Renoir works such as the young woman splashing the others in ''Les Grandes Baigneuses'' (Renoir, 1887). The painting itself represented a return by Renoir to a gentler, more delicate style after his years of experimenting with Impressionism. As he himself said at the time in a letter to the art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel "I have taken up again, never to abandon it, my old style, soft and light of touch. This is to give you some idea of my new and final manner of painting".

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{{19C-painting-stub category:Paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir category:Women in art category:1888 paintings Paintings in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon