Pierre-Auguste Renoir Le chapeau épinglé (Pinning the Hat)
drypoint etching, signed in plate l.l.,
image measures approximately: 3 1/4" W x 4 3/8" H
frame measures approximately: 14 1/2" W x 16 1/4" H
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From Museum of Modern Art:
Pierre-Auguste Renoir did not make prints until he was almost fifty years old, after he was an established Impressionist painter renowned for his bathers, landscapes, and portraits of the Parisian leisure class. Between about 1890 and 1908 he made approximately sixty prints—roughly half of them etchings and half lithographs—most of which were commissioned for books or albums.
The subject, which Renoir had previously treated in a pastel and an oil painting of 1893, as well as in three etchings of 1894, is the painter Berthe Morisot's daughter, Julie, pinning flowers on her cousin Paulette's broad-brimmed hat.
The two figures are delicately composed with detail of the hatched lines throughout the work. Seated in elegant dresses and wearing large hats with ribbons on them, the face of only one figure is visible while the other is obscured with her back to the viewer. Looking away from us in contemplation while having her hat adjusted, the left figure appears to sit back in space through the use of lighter values. With her back to us, the right figure appears as though she is closer, with more line work and stronger values throughout her hair and hat. Wonderfully executed, this work is a strong example of the impressionist reflection on life as that of light and beauty.
Created c. 1894 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), this work is created after the troisième planche, or Third Version of the plate (the prior two feature the girls facing in the opposite direction with much less detail). Signed in the plate by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919) in the lower left of the image. Featured in the 1894 publication of La Vie Artistique by Gustave Geffroy and also in the 1921 work, Renoir et ses Amis by Georges Rivière.
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