Cleveland Museum of Art
Peasant Girl with Dog
Pierre-Auguste RenoirLinkedCulture matchlcp-3c5e45018677
- Date
- c. 1894
- Medium
- red chalk
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 127235
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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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- by 1920-after 1929: Max Silberberg, Breslau | 1929-?: (possibly Paul Cassirer, Berlin) | ?-1949: (Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) | 1949-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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