Oil Portrait of Irène Cahen d'Anvers," also known as "Little Irene"

Size 18" x 22". It was painted by the renowned French Impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1880. The Portrait of Irène Cahen d’Anvers, or The Little Girl with the Blue Ribbon (French: La Petite Fille au ruban bleu) or Little Irène (French: La Petite Irène) Commissioned by the wealthy French Jewish banker Louis Cahen d'Anvers in 1880, the painting depicts his daughter Irène Cahen d'Anvers at the age of 8. During World War II, the painting was stolen by the Nazis during their organized looting of European countries. In 1946 it resurfaced and was exhibited in Paris as one of the "French masterpieces found in Germany". In 2014, it appeared in the war film The Monuments Men as one of the pieces of art saved by the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program. The origional painting remains part of the E.G. Bührle Collection in Zürich. The Cahen d'Anvers family was one of the wealthiest Jewish banking families in Paris.[1] In 1880, Louis Cahen d'Anvers commissioned two portraits of his three daughters, the eldest of whom was Irène. The Portrait of Irène Cahen d'Anvers, also commonly called Little Irene, is considered today as one of Renoir's masterpieces. At the time, for an unknown reason, Louis was so dissatisfied with the painting that he hung it in the servants' quarters and delayed Renoir's payment of 1500 francs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Ir%C3%A8ne_Cahen_d%27Anvers