Tilla Durieux by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1914
Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org
Erisava: If I'd paid for a portrait and it came back this blurry, I'd want my money back.
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She was apparently one of the most famous stage actresses in Europe, and sat for this just weeks before the First World War broke out. They say his arthritis was so bad by then that he worked with the brush wedged into his bandaged hand.
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