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Description:
This print, based on original oil on canvas painting by the renowned French Impressionist Pierre Auguste Renoir, is truly remarkable. Originally painted in the French Impressionist style of the 19th century, this print displays a young child dressed in 19th century white attire. With chin-length blond hair and bangs, the child has a complacent facial expression while they stare just off to the side of the painting. The child’s pale skin is highlighted by their rosy cheeks and pink pursed lips. The shading and highlighting by the artist is impeccable and accented nicely by the dark greenish-blue background. The artist leaves their signature mark of large, well-sculpted blue eyes which are characteristic to many of Renoir’s other works.
At 26.5” x 30.5”, this print on a coated panel is elegantly framed in a dark gold ornate wooden frame. The unique matting and framing presentation of this piece was individually selected and created by Le Chateau’s renowned master framer, Jeanette Shoenrock, and bears her signature on the back.
Pierre Auguste Renoir was born on February 25th, 1841 in Limoges. In 1854 Renoir left school to begin his apprenticeship as a porcelain painter at the firm of Levy freres. His precocious talent for painting would assure his career as a porcelain painter but the firm went bankrupt in 1858. After that Renoir dabbled in a number of different jobs but it seems that he may have decided to become a full-time painter around this date. In 1860 Renoir was granted permission to copy in the Louvre, a practice that he maintained for the next four years. At this time Renoir had a taste for 18th century masters. By the following year Renoir had begun attending the studio of Marc-Gabriel-Charles Gleyer, a Swiss teacher who offered practical instruction to a number of artists. Linked to Renoir’s desire for a ‘pure’ art was the notion of a mythical past in which people lived in a ‘natural’ state, based on the model of a pre-industrial era and in which individuality was highly valued. For Renoir this involved an artisanal approach to art, and he found its archetype in the art of pre-revolutionary eighteenth century France. Renoir died on December 3rd, 1919 in Cagnes, at age 78.
| Status: For Sale |
Reference#: REN_P_4_07_26_30 |
| Condition:
Excellent |
Year:
19--
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| Height:
30.5 in. (77.47 cm) |
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Width: 26.5 in. (67.31 cm)
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| Title:
Child in White |
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