Young Girl with a Wildflower-Trimmed Hat (1880) — Renoir Postcard

A young blonde sitter rests her cheek lightly against her hand under a wide hat dressed with red poppies and white daisies. Painted in 1880, the picture is built on warm flesh tones, the sudden cool of the blue hat brim, and Renoir's growing love for ordinary girls turned into small icons of summer — a tender card for a friend who keeps wildflowers everywhere.