Young Girl Combing Her Hair by Pierre-Auguste Renoir - 1894 - 53 × 44 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art Young Girl Combing Her Hair by Pierre-Auguste Renoir - 1894 - 53 × 44 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art

Young Girl Combing Her Hair

oil on canvas • 53 × 44 cm
  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir - February 25, 1841 - December 3, 1919 Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1894

The portrait Young Girl Combing Her Hair was painted when Renoir was fifty-three and at a time when he first endured severe bouts of arthritis. Renoir was best known for his paintings of women, often nude and usually suggesting some aspect of domestic life rather than an abstract sexuality. This young girl is performing the same sort of everyday rituals that were also painted by another famous impressionist painter, Edgar Degas, such as taking a bath or ironing their clothes.