Woman by the Grapevine, Second Variant (Femme au cep de vigne, 2e variante) from Twelve Original Lithographs by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Douze lithographies originales de Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
c. 1904, published 1919
A delicate lithograph by Pierre-Auguste Renoir showing a standing nude woman beside a grapevine, presented as a small, painterly vignette from a portfolio of twelve prints.
What strikes you first is the tiny, central sketch—rendered in quick, looping lines and surrounded by a large field of empty paper—so that the figure feels both intimate and spontaneously sketched within a makeshift frame.
The sheet shows Renoir translating his Impressionist, painterly touch into lithography, linking his long-standing interest in the female nude and classical motifs to the revival and modernization of printmaking around 1900.
Medium
One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 4 1/2 x 3 3/8" (11.5 x 8.6 cm); sheet: 13 × 9 13/16" (33 × 25 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The Louis E. Stern Collection
Accession
1032.1964.10
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