Peasant Girl with Dog

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Cleveland Museum of Art

The drawing depicts a woman sitting on what appears to be a bench or a tree stump, wearing a long dress and a scarf around her neck. She sits with her left elbow on her knee and her head resting on her hand. A dog, possibly a large breed with floppy ears, sits on the ground in front of her, looking up. The woman and dog are rendered in reddish-brown pencil on beige paper. The artist's signature, "Renoir," is visible in the bottom-left corner. The background includes vertical lines suggesting trees. The overall style is impressionistic.