A young woman in a black-and-white striped gown, pearls and pink roses sits at the front of a theatre box, while her companion looks up through opera glasses at someone else in the house. The models were Nini Lopez and Renoir's brother Edmond. Renoir showed it at the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874: the box was a place to see and be seen.
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Her black stripes are mixed with blue, and the white ones hold touches of blue, green and yellow. X-rays suggest she first wore a hat.
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