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Renoir, Pierre-Auguste. Peasant Girl with Dog, c. 1894. red chalk, Sheet: 31 x 24.1 cm (12 3/16 x 9 1/2 in.). John L. Severance Fund, 1949.551. CC0.
Peasant Girl with Dog
c. 1894
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)
Drawings
Peasant Girl with Dog, c. 1894. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919). Red chalk; sheet: 31 x 24.1 cm (12 3/16 x 9 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1949.551 During the last decades of his career, Renoir worked prolifically in red chalk, which was used to develop a loose and sketchy style. In this drawing, the artist attempted to recapture the spontaneity that characterized Impressionist art a few decades earlier. By showing a young girl seated resting peacefully alongside a bale of hay, he idealized rural French life. The art historian John Rewald supposedly called this work "one of the two or three most beautiful Renoir drawings in America."
Inscription: signed, lower left, in red chalk: Renoir ; verso, upper left, in graphite: 8 ; upper left, in graphite: 41 x 50 ; lower left, on paper strip mounted to sheet, in graphite: 77