Auguste Renoir's 1914 portrait of the actress Tilla Durieux, born Ottilie Godeffroy, was painted late in the artist's career, when arthritis had begun to limit his handling yet his color had grown warmer and more saturated. The sitter, a celebrated performer of the Berlin stage, is rendered with a soft, generalized modeling that favors overall harmony of tone over precise likeness, characteristic of Renoir's late manner. Oil on canvas, the portrait documents both an artist working through physical constraint and a specific, identifiable cultural figure of the period. It entered the collection through the bequest of Stephen C. Clark in 1960. Scion regards the intersection of a named, historically documented sitter with a securely provenanced collection history as a combination that strengthens a work's standing on multiple fronts.