Portrait of Ambroise Vollard in a Red Headscarf

Portrait of Ambroise Vollard in a Red Headscarf
Artist	Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Year	c.1899
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	30 cm × 25 cm (12 in × 9.8 in)
Location	Petit Palais, Paris

Portrait of Ambroise Vollard in a Red Headscarf (French:Ambroise Vollard au foulard rouge) is an 1899 oil on canvas portrait by Pierre-Auguste Renoir of his art dealer Ambroise Vollard. The painting represents Renoir's late work period (1892–1919). It is housed in the Petit Palais in Paris.

Description

A large bald man, Vollard is pictured in this portrait in profile dressed in a brown wool cloth suit, with characteristically downcast eyes. He wears a red headscarf that has been tied behind his neck, which serves as a reminder of his origins and upbringing on the Indian Ocean island of Réunion.[1]

Other portraits

Vollard was not averse to posing for a portrait and was painted by Renoir on at least two other occasions (conventionally suited in 1908 and dressed as a matador in 1917), as well as by some of Renoir's contemporaries.

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  Renoir, 1908
• 
  Renoir, 1917

See also

• List of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

References

1. "Ambroise Vollard in a Red Scarf". Petit Palais. 31 March 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2020.