Workers' Daughters on the Outer Boulevard (Illustration for Émile Zola's "L'Assommoir")
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1877/78
Medium
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
27.5 × 39.9 cm (10 7/8 × 15 3/4 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
105461
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...