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.
Young Girl Combing Her Hair
oil on canvas • 53 × 44 cm