The Apple Seller
c. 1890
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
The Apple Seller, c. 1890. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919). Oil on fabric; framed: 93 x 82.2 x 9.5 cm (36 5/8 x 32 3/8 x 3 3/4 in.); unframed: 65.8 x 54.5 cm (25 7/8 x 21 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. 1958.47 Using repetitive, soft, light-of-touch brushstrokes to form patches of color, Renoir creates a sense of dappled light that reflects on the ground and caresses the figures, giving the painting an ethereal, dreamlike quality.
- Maker/Artist
- Renoir, Pierre-Auguste
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 93 x 82.2 x 9.5 cm (36 5/8 x 32 3/8 x 3 3/4 in.); Unframed: 65.8 x 54.5 cm (25 7/8 x 21 7/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed center right: a. renoir / 1864
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1958.47
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
- Exhibitions
- Color: Light to Palette, A loan exhibition for the benefit of The American Association of Museums : in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Renoir’s death, Renoir, Renoir Retrospective, Rise and Fall of Modernity: Weimar- a German Example 1890-1990, Renoir: 1870 - 1892, Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Renoir - Tradition and Innovation, <em>Exposition Renoir.</em> Durand-Ruel, Paris, France (1896)., <em>Exhibition of French Masters from Courbet to Seura</em>t. Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc. New York, NY (1937)., <em>The Hanna Collection of Modern Masterpieces</em>. J. B. Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, KY (1944)., <em>Summer Loan: group of fourteen Hanna paintings.</em> Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY . (June-September 1949).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 222 Impressionism & Post-Impressionism
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