Alphonsine Fournaise
1879
Meet Alphonsine Fournaise, the daughter of a restaurant owner on the Seine, posing on her family's balcony in 1879. Renoir captures her in a moment of relaxed charm, wearing a straw hat with a bold red ribbon and a breezy blue dress, with the river and a bridge blurring softly in the background. The Fournaise restaurant was basically the 'it' spot for Impressionist painters like Monet, making this portrait a snapshot of the ultimate artistic hangout of the 19th century.
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