A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant, 1875 - Large Art Prints Frame:Rolled All this means these are

All this means these are the sort of big

In this oft-reproduced work

bedecked in all finery is placed against a monochromatic background

The overall blue-green tone of the background serves as a foil to the orange-red of the artist’s hair and beard

A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant, 1875 - Large Art Prints Frame:Rolled All this means these areRenoir portrays a waitress who worked at one of several Parisian restaurants established by a butcher named Duval. Renoir imparted to his comely model an unaffected grace. As he once said, "I like painting best when it looks eternal without boasting about it: an everyday eternity, revealed on the street corner: a servant girl pausing a moment as she scours a saucepan, and becoming a Juno on Olympus."