Young Woman Arranging Her Earring
Medium
oil on fabric
Dimensions
unframed: 55.3 × 46.4 cm · framed: 76.5 × 67.5 × 10 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of William G. Mather
Accession Number
1951.324
Tags
male
About this artwork
During his later years, Pierre-Auguste Renoir moved away from pure Impressionism toward a classicizing style featuring strong, monumental figures of substantial weight and volume. This depiction of a woman arranging her earrings, a superb example of that trend in the artist's late work, may have been inspired by one of the figures in Eugène Delacroix’s Women of Algiers in their Apartment (Musée du Louvre, Paris).