Young Girl in a Pink-and-Black Hat
Auguste Renoir
ca. 1891
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
16 x 12 3/4 in. (40.6 x 32.4 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Kathryn B. Miller, 1964
Accession Number
64.150
Tags
PortraitsGirls
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...