Girl with a Basket of Oranges
Auguste Renoir
c. 1889
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 128.8 x 41.8 cm (50 11/16 x 16 7/16 in.) framed: 151.1 x 61.9 x 5.1 cm (59 1/2 x 24 3/8 x 2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of William Robertson Coe
Accession Number
1956.4.2
About the Artist
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...