Thérèse Berard was the niece of one of Renoir's primary patrons, the diplomat and banker Paul Berard. When the artist made this painting in the late 1870s, he was developing a reputation as a skilled portraitist. The brushwork is delicate and the palette is restrained compared to his more experimental work from this period, perhaps because Renoir acknowledged that with a portrait, “it’s necessary for a mother to recognize her daughter.”
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