The Apple Seller

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The Apple Seller

Pierre-Auguste RenoirLinkedCulture matchlcp-3c5e45018677

Date
c. 1890
Medium
oil on fabric
Culture
France, 19th century
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
135480

This painting depicts a young country girl offering apples to Renoir's wife, Aline. The boy in the straw hat may be the artist's nephew, Edmond, but the young girl with the ribbon in her hair has not been identified. Bathed in soft, dappled sunlight, the figures are united through the fluid brushstrokes that cover the canvas. The leaping dog provides an accent of humor and motion in an otherwise tranquil scene. The picture was probably completed at Essoyes, in eastern France. 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.

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Credit line
Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
Provenance
1891: (Durand-Ruel, Paris, France, November 9, 1891, stock no. 1915, purchased from the artist) | 1891-1896: (Durand-Ruel, Paris, France, June 12, 1896, sold to Graf von Kessler) | 1896-: Graf von Kessler [1868-1937], Berlin, Germany | Marquis de Biron [1859-1939], Geneva, Switzerland | 1937-1941: (Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, NY, February 5, 1941, sold to Leonard C. Hanna Jr.) | 1941-1958: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. [1889-1957], Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1958-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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