Horsewoman in the Bois de Boulogne — Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1873 | Postcard

An elegant young woman in a long black riding habit reins in her grey horse while a small groom stands by — a fashionable scene from the Bois de Boulogne, Paris's most photographed park before photography. Renoir intended this Salon-scale canvas as a public statement, ambitious in size and finish; today it hangs at the Hamburger Kunsthalle.

The card is for riders, for friends who love nineteenth-century Paris, and for thank-you notes that should feel as deliberate as a tailored coat.

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