Landscape with a Girl
ca. 1890
Medium
Watercolor with traces of graphite on off-white laid paper with edges darkened from acid mat
Dimensions
9 7/16 × 12 5/16 in. (23.9 × 31.2 cm) Framed: 16 1/4 × 21 1/4 in. (41.3 × 54 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.689
Tags
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...