La Parisienne (English: The Parisian) is an oil painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, completed in 1874 and now displayed at the National Museum Cardiff.

The work, which was one of seven presented by Renoir at the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874, is often referred to as The Blue Lady (French: La Dame en Bleu) and is one of the centre-pieces of the National Museum's art collection.

It shows a young woman in a long layered dress of a striking deep blue, her face turned to the viewer as she puts on her gloves.

When first exhibited in 1874, under the title La Parisienne, the painting, like most of the other works on display that day, received mixed reviews; though most critics mentioned it in passing.

[1] Jean Prouvaire of Le Rappel expressed mixed sentiments about the painting:"The toe of her ankle boot is almost invisible, and peeps out like a little black mouse.

[3] La Parisienne was completed in 1874 and was first displayed, along with five other oil paintings and a pastel from Renoir, at the studio of Nadar in the April of that year at the First Impressionist Exhibition.

[1] Also featured at the studio were works by Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley and other leading lights of the embryonic Impressionism art movement.

Art collector and fellow Impressionist artist Henri Rouart paid Renoir 1,500 francs for the painting, hanging it at his home at the Rue de Lisbonne in Paris.

Durand-Ruel later sold his share of the painting to Knoedler and the work was displayed at the National Portrait Society exhibition at Grosvenor Square in London in 1913.