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A fact from La Parisienne (Renoir painting) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 January 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Renoir's oil painting La Parisienne(pictured) was shown at the first Impressionist exhibition, in Paris in 1874?
I have made a few corrections, mostly very minor matters of expression. The two more serious matters are the way in which the background was described. The background is certainly not "cream" but is richly coloured and textured. The other one is the implication that the second quote contradicted the first. In fact, in the process of describing the painting, he finds fault with most of it.
FYI, the gathering of the skirt at the back of the dress is called a bustle. She was probably wearing some sort of contraption or padding to hold the dress out at the back. Since the dress is very important to the picture, it would be good to mention that upper layer of the skirt is "gathered into a bustle at the back". Dresses like this are fully lined, the bodice is reinforced with strips of whalebone and the whole dress is extremely heavy.
