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The Apple Seller
Pierre-Auguste Renoirc. 1890
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: The Apple Seller
- Creator: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)
- Date Created: c. 1890
- Physical Dimensions: Framed: 93 x 82.2 x 9.5 cm (36 5/8 x 32 3/8 x 3 3/4 in.); Unframed: 65.8 x 54.5 cm (25 7/8 x 21 7/16 in.)
- Provenance: (Durand-Ruel, Paris, France, November 9, 1891, stock no. 1915, purchased from the artist), (Durand-Ruel, Paris, France, June 12, 1896, sold to Graf von Kessler), Graf von Kessler [1868-1937], Berlin, Germany, Marquis de Biron [1859-1939], Geneva, Switzerland, (Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, NY, February 5, 1941, sold to Leonard C. Hanna Jr.), Leonard C. Hanna Jr. [1889-1957], Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.47
- Medium: oil on fabric
- Inscriptions: Signed center right: a. renoir / 1864
- Fun Fact: 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.
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 1958.47
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