1874, Auguste Renoir, The Parisian Girl -- National Gallery of Art (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the museum/exhibition label:
Société Anonyme 1874, no. 143
Resplendent in blue, Renoir's model wears contemporary daytime street attire of a hat, dress, and gloves. Her identity is secondary to her ensemble and the way she wears it. A new, affordable synthetic form of indigo dye sparked a mania for the color blue in clothing at this time.
The poet Baudelaire described "a skillfully composed toilette" (referring to a fashionable outfit and turnout) as being "inseparable from the beauty of her to whom it belonged, making thus of the two things— the woman and her dress — an indivisible unity."
1874, Auguste Renoir, The Parisian Girl -- National Gallery of Art (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the museum/exhibition label:
Société Anonyme 1874, no. 143
Resplendent in blue, Renoir's model wears contemporary daytime street attire of a hat, dress, and gloves. Her identity is secondary to her ensemble and the way she wears it. A new, affordable synthetic form of indigo dye sparked a mania for the color blue in clothing at this time.
The poet Baudelaire described "a skillfully composed toilette" (referring to a fashionable outfit and turnout) as being "inseparable from the beauty of her to whom it belonged, making thus of the two things— the woman and her dress — an indivisible unity."