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Young Woman Arranging Her Earring

Pierre-Auguste Renoir1905

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States

During his later years, Renoir moved away from pure Impressionism toward a classicizing style featuring strong, monumental figures of substantial weight and volume. This depiction of a woman arranging her earrings, a superb example of that trend in the artist's late work, may have been inspired by one of the figures in Eugène Delacroix's <em>Women of Algiers in their Apartment </em>(Musée du Louvre, Paris).

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  • Title: Young Woman Arranging Her Earring
  • Creator: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919)
  • Date Created: 1905
  • Physical Dimensions: Framed: 76.5 x 67.5 x 10 cm (30 1/8 x 26 9/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 55.3 x 46.4 cm (21 3/4 x 18 1/4 in.)
  • Type: Painting
  • Rights: CC0
  • External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.324
  • Medium: oil on fabric
  • Inscriptions: Signed lower left: Renoir
  • Fun Fact: The model for this painting is Gabrielle Renard—a housekeeper, nursemaid, studio assistant, and frequent model to Renoir.
  • Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
  • Culture: France, 20th century
  • Credit Line: Bequest of William G. Mather
  • Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
  • Accession Number: 1951.324
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