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Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Etching, ‘Le chapeau épinglé’, 1894

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:500.00 EUR Estimated At:800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR
Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Etching, ‘Le chapeau épinglé’, 1894
‘Le chapeau épinglé (La fille de Berthe Morisot et sa cousine)’
Etching on yellowish laid paper
France, 1894, printed later
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) – French impressionist artist
Signed in the plate lower left ‘Renoir’
Catalog raisonné: Delteil 8 II (of II)
Plate dimensions: 11.6 x 8 cm
Good condition
Auguste Renoir is one of the most important representatives of French Impressionism; etchings by Renoir of the same subject matter fetch up to 3,600 euro at international auctions

This is an etching by Pierre-Auguste Renoir with the title ‘Le chapeau épinglé (La fille de Berthe Morisot et sa cousine)’. Depicted are two girls in a garden, sticking flowers in their hat. After Roger Marx the two girls are the daughter of Berthe Morisot with her cousin. The subject of the two girls sitting in the garden can also be found in one of Renoir’s paintings from 1893 that is titled ‘Chapeaux d’été‘ respectively ‘Les deux fillettes’. The etching is characterized by its dynamic lines and the instant of the moment, in which the girls seem to feel unobserved.



The etching is signed in the plate lower left ‘Renoir’. The sheet is minimally toned in the mat cutout. There are singular handling creases visible in the margins of the sheet. The work is besides that in good condition. The plate mark is 11.6 x 8 cm in size and the dimensions of the sheet are 33 x 25.3 cm. The total dimensions, including the frame, are 38 x 30.5 cm.



Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

Renoir was born as the son of a tailor couple. He started his career in a porcelain manufactory where he painted the porcelain. He soon became one of the company’s best painters but due to the concurrence of the industrial production the manufactory had to close when Renoir was only 17 years old. The young artist was forced to earn his living by occasional jobs. He began studying painting when 20 years old but instead of adapting the classical way his teachers taught him, he found himself influenced by befriended artists such as Courbet, Monet and Sisley. In 1864 he exhibited for the first time in the Parisian Salon. During the 1870s, Renoir moved between the classical manner of painting and the upcoming impressionism. He applied for the Salon of the Academy at the same time when he helped organizing the first impressionism exhibition. Influenced from a trip to Italy and especially by the works of Ingres and Raffael, he turned towards classicism and his paintings became less impressionistic. Due to an illness, he moved to the countryside where he kept painting with a brush tied to his hand until he died in 1919. (tm)
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