A Young Girl with Daisies, 1889, Oil on canvas, 25 5/8 x 21 1/4 in. (65. 1 x 54 cm), Paintings, Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841?1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer), I have taken up again, never to abandon it, my old style, soft and light of touch, ' Renoir announced to his dealer Durand-Ruel in 1888. Turning to the idle pastimes of young, middle-class girls, Renoir gave inimitable expression to his feeling that a picture, above all, 'should be something likeable, joyous and pretty?yes, pretty