Art Institute of Chicago
Jean Renoir Sewing
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)LinkedCulture matchlcp-19ef49eab713
- Date
- 1899–1900
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 25832
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s son Jean, seen here, served as a model for his father from a young age. Renoir so loved the “silken gold” of his son’s long hair, then in fashion for little boys, that he insisted it remain long until Jean was seven, much to his embarrassment. Jean, later a prominent film director, recalled that the children’s nanny, Gabrielle, suggested that he keep himself occupied during the modeling session for this painting by sewing a satin coat for his toy camel.
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- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Provenance
- Possibly Durand-Ruel, Paris, by Apr. 1912. [this and the following per Dauberville and Dauberville 2010]; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, 1914; by descent to his wife Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, 1932 [Last Will and Testament of Martin A. Ryerson, Died August 11, 1932, copy in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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