Girls at the Piano Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Girls at the Piano
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Painter: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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One of the painting’s sketches is currently in the St. Petersburg Hermitage Museum. The history of its creation is somewhat different from the usual works of Pierre Auguste Renoir. It all began in 1891, when Henri Rougeon, director of the Fine Arts Department in France, asked the artist to provide him with a work for a museum in Luxembourg. Then Renoir undertook to create a series of paintings, sustained in the same theme.
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Description of the painting "Girls at the Piano" by Pierre Auguste Renoir
One of the painting’s sketches is currently in the St. Petersburg Hermitage Museum. The history of its creation is somewhat different from the usual works of Pierre Auguste Renoir.
It all began in 1891, when Henri Rougeon, director of the Fine Arts Department in France, asked the artist to provide him with a work for a museum in Luxembourg. Then Renoir undertook to create a series of paintings, sustained in the same theme. One of these paintings was the work "Girls at the piano", which critics considered unfinished.
The fact that the viewer may seem as if the picture lacks the richness and fineness of the lines, but it is worth noting the absence of any standards in the work. This is what Renoir took advantage of when he provided the painting for the exhibition. If we consider it from the point of view of a professional, here is relevant a certain transparency and weightlessness of the composition, which is achieved by the presence of warm, but not caustic colors.
Renoir also did not overload the canvas clear contour of the figures and the presence of additional attributes. Thus, the impression of a certain integrity of the image as an individual episode in life, in which all is in harmony with the red dress of one of the girls, and a vase of flowers, flowing into a musical instrument, and the lack of three-dimensionality.
It is important to note that this particular painting was the first in the life of the artist, which was bought for the state collection. At that time Renoir was 50 (!) years old. During its existence, the canvas managed to move in the Louvre, then in the national gallery Je de Pom, and then in the Orsay Museum, where it is still located.
Speaking about the artist, it is worth noting his great popularity among the wealthy citizens of that time, because Renoir was distinguished by the characteristic style of secular France in his works. He painted a lot on a similar theme, including this painting.
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