Claude Renoir, head lowered (Claude Renoir, la tete baissee)
Auguste Renoir
1904
Medium
lithograph on japan paper [trial proof]
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.7353
About the Artist
Auguste Renoir · 1841–1919
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), born in Limoges to a modest tailor's family, displayed prodigious talent early on, apprenticed at age thirteen to the Lévy Frères porcelain factory in Paris after his family relocated there in 1845. There, he decorated fine china with floral designs, fans, and religious hangings, honing his skills in color and draftsmanship. By 1862, having saved enough, Renoir s...