the parisienne auguste renoirShown at the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874, The Parisienne was met with disdain by the critics, who deemed its handling too loose. The model is Henriette Henriot, a young seventeen year old actress who frequently posed for Auguste Renoir during this period. Rather than an individual portrait, the work aims to be an emblematic representation of the modern young woman under the Third Republic, elegant and independent, a subject also explored by