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Jeanne Samary by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1878
National Gallery of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
They say this started as a quick study of a French stage actress, a favourite subject who sat for several portraits like this one.
Erisava: Does this really look finished to you?
Tilla Durieux by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1914
Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org
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.
Erisava: If I'd paid for a portrait and it came back this blurry, I'd want my money back.