Cleveland Museum of Art

Peasant Girl with Dog

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Date

c. 1894

Medium

red chalk

Culture

France, 19th century

Department

Drawings

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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."

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