Jeanne Samary

PORTRAIT OF JEANNE SAMARY, BY P. AUGUSTE RENOIR.

Though my partner pretty much has the redhead market sewed-up, I ran across this one and it caught my eye. Reading a little more about Renoir, I was struck by a comment attributed to him in his final phase. After 1890, he was reduced to painting with a brush strapped to his hand from a wheelchair. When asked if that made things more difficult, he said “One does not paint with one’s hands.”