During the 1870s, when his impressionist paintings sold poorly, renoir supported himself with portrait commissions. This portrait of six-year-old adelphine legrand, the daughter of a friend and art dealer, shows the artist’s skill in capturing the hesitant personality of a young child, full of natural vivacity but determined to behave. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: 1875. Dimensions: height: 32 in (81.2 cm); width: 23.5 in (59.6 cm). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Philadelphia Museum of Art. Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Portrait of Mademoiselle Legrand, 1875
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