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Print Portrait entitled ?A Girl with a Watering#1053605

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Print Portrait entitled ?A Girl with a Watering#1053605
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Print Portrait entitled ?A Girl with a Watering Can?, originally painted by Auguste Renoir 1876
French impressionist painter, noted for his radiant, intimate paintings, particularly of the female nude. Recognized by critics as one of the greatest and most independent painters of his period, Renoir is noted for the harmony of his lines, the brilliance of his color, and the intimate charm of his wide variety of subjects. Unlike other impressionists he was as much interested in painting the single human figure or family group portraits as he was in landscapes; unlike them, too, he did not subordinate composition and plasticity of form to attempts at rendering the effect of light.
Renoir was born in Limoges on February 25, 1841. As a child he worked in a porcelain factory in Paris, painting designs on china; at 17 he copied paintings on fans, lampshades, and blinds. He studied painting formally in 1862-63 at the academy of the Swiss painter Charles Gabriel Gleyre in Paris. Renoir's early work was influenced by two French artists, Claude Monet in his treatment of light and the romantic painter Eugène Delacroix in his treatment of color. Renoir first exhibited his paintings in Paris in 1864, but he did not gain recognition until 1874, at the first exhibition of painters of the new impressionist school. One of the most famous of all impressionist works is Renoir's Le Bal au Moulin de la Galette, an open-air scene of a café, in which his mastery in figure painting and in representing ...
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<tr><td>Condition:very good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1876</td></tr>

<tr><td>Maker:Auguste Renoir </td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:30</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:23.75</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Print Portrait entitled ?A Girl with a Watering</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:Grosse Pointe Park, MI. 48230, USA</td></tr>
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