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Peasant Girl with Dog
Pierre-Auguste Renoirc. 1894
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: Peasant Girl with Dog
- Creator: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)
- Date Created: c. 1894
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 31 x 24.1 cm (12 3/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: Max Silberberg, Breslau, (possibly Paul Cassirer, Berlin), (Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH), Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.551
- Medium: red chalk
- Inscriptions: signed, lower left, in red chalk: Renoir ; verso, upper left, in graphite: 8 ; upper left, in graphite: 41 x 50 ; lower left, on paper strip mounted to sheet, in graphite: 77
- Fun Fact: The art historian John Rewald supposedly called this work "one of the two or three most beautiful Renoir drawings in America."
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
- Collection: DR - French
- Accession Number: 1949.551
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