
Three Little Girls
Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña · c. 1870
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Original size
- 39.4 × 26.7 cm (15 1/2 × 10 1/2 in.)
- Currently held
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Movement
- Romanticism
Three Little Girls captures the gentle warmth and dappled intimacy that made Narcisse Diaz de la Peña one of the most beloved figure painters in nineteenth-century France. Born in Bordeaux to Spanish parents and largely self-taught, Diaz made his name through the Barbizon School, spending decades painting the forest of Fontainebleau before turning increasingly to small-scale figure works like this one. His technique here is characteristically rich — short, jewel-like strokes of colour that build a surface full of life, with the soft light falling across the children in a way that feels observed rather than composed. Painted on panel rather than canvas, the work has an intimacy and tonal depth that oil on wood uniquely allows. Diaz was famously resilient: he lost a leg to blood poisoning as a child and taught himself to paint largely in isolation, yet went on to exhibit at the Salon for decades and to mentor a young Renoir, who later credited him as a formative influence. Our hand-painted oil reproduction is made by skilled artists working directly from high-resolution archival reference, matching the warm amber palette, the soft tonal transitions, and the fluid brushwork that give the original its quiet, enduring charm.
Hand-painted oil reproduction
Painted in real oil on stretched canvas by master copyists. Delivered unframed — ready to frame at home.
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