Théâtre Libre
The model for the painting was French actress Henriette Henriot (1857–1944), who at the time of the sitting was sixteen years old. Henriot was an unknown in 1874, though she would later become well known appearing at the Théâtre de l'Odéon and starred in productions for André Antoine's Théâtre Libre. Henriot would sit for at least eleven other paintings for Renoir, including "La Source" (1875) and "The Page" (1876).