Portrait of Séverine
Auguste Renoir French
Not on view
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.).
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