Cleveland Museum of Art

Young Woman Arranging Her Earring

Pierre-Auguste RenoirLinkedCulture matchlcp-3c5e45018677

Date: 1905
Medium: oil on fabric
Culture: France, 20th century
Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 128364

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During his later years, Pierre-Auguste Renoir moved away from pure Impressionism toward a classicizing style featuring strong, monumental figures of substantial weight and volume. This depiction of a woman arranging her earrings, a superb example of that trend in the artist's late work, may have been inspired by one of the figures in Eugène Delacroix’s Women of Algiers in their Apartment (Musée du Louvre, Paris). The model for this painting is Gabrielle Renard—a housekeeper, nursemaid, studio assistant, and frequent model to Renoir.

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Credit line: Bequest of William G. Mather
Provenance: Bought from the artist by Durand-Ruel, Paris (stock number 8306) on 24 October 1906. | Sold to Durand-Ruel, New York (stock number 3224), 19 October 1908. | Sold to Mrs. G. Mather, 5 April 1911. | William G. Mather, Cleveland. Bequeathed to the CMA on 26 July 1951.