Peasant Girl with Dog
c. 1894
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)
Drawings
Peasant Girl with Dog, c. 1894. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919). Red chalk; sheet: 31 x 24.1 cm (12 3/16 x 9 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1949.551 During the last decades of his career, Renoir worked prolifically in red chalk, which was used to develop a loose and sketchy style. In this drawing, the artist attempted to recapture the spontaneity that characterized Impressionist art a few decades earlier. By showing a young girl seated resting peacefully alongside a bale of hay, he idealized rural French life. The art historian John Rewald supposedly called this work "one of the two or three most beautiful Renoir drawings in America."
- Maker/Artist
- Renoir, Pierre-Auguste
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- red chalk
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 31 x 24.1 cm (12 3/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed, lower left, in red chalk: Renoir ; verso, upper left, in graphite: 8 ; upper left, in graphite: 41 x 50 ; lower left, on paper strip mounted to sheet, in graphite: 77
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1949.551
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition, 19th Century Master Drawings, Drawings, 19th and 20th Century Drawings, French Drawings, Drawings, The Impressionist Aesthetic, Directions in Drawing: 1750-1988, French Drawings from the Collection, Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in Nineteenth-Century Paris, <em>Nineteenth Century Master Drawings. </em>Newark Museum (March 16 - April 30, 1961)., <em>Renoir, Degas</em>. Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York (November 7 - December 6, 1958)., <em>Ein Jahrhundert Französischer Zeichnung</em>. Paul Cassirer, Berlin (December 1929 - January 1930).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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