Child with a Biscuit (Jean Renoir)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1898/99
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 31.7 × 26 cm (12 1/2 × 10 1/4 in.); Sheet, sight: 37.5 × 31.3 cm (14 13/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
215417
About the Artist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1841–1919
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a founding figure of Impressionism whose luminous depictions of Parisian leisure, sensuous female forms, and sun-dappled landscapes made him one of the most beloved painters in Western art history. Born in Limoges to a working-class family, Renoir began as a porcelain painter before pursuing fine arts, and this early craft experience gave him facility with the...