Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Portrait of Alphonsine
Fournaise. 1879. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
More.
Mlle. Alphonsine Fournaise, daughter
of Le Pere Fournais, the owner of a small hotel and restaurant in Chatou,
which Renoir frequented with his friends. Mlle. Fournais posed for Renoir
in several paintings, including Le Grenoillère. Renoir painted
The
Luncheon of the Boating party, in which the Fournaise family are painted
with their friends.
See: Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Girl with
a Fan (Mlle. Alphonsina Fournez).
