Why it matters
Jeanne Samary, a young actress at the Comédie-Française who lived near Renoir, sits in a dreamy pose. It was badly received at the Third Impressionist Exhibition of 1877.
Did you know?
- It is also called The Daydream.
- It belonged to Ivan Morozov's collection, seized after the October Revolution.
- It appeared on a Soviet stamp in 1970.
Based on the Wikipedia article The Day Dream (Renoir) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
