Portrait of Séverine

Auguste Renoir

1885–87 · Charcoal and unfixed pastel on paper · Robert Lehman Collection

Caroline Rémy, known by her pen name “Séverine,” was one of the first French women journalists and a passionate feminist and left-wing orator. Renoir drew her likeness on several occasions, here in charcoal over pastel and again in a pastel (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.).

Artist

Auguste Renoir

Date

1885–87

Medium

Charcoal and unfixed pastel on paper

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975