Woman by the Grapevine, Fourth Variant (Femme au cep de vigne, 4e 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 small lithographic study in which Renoir captures a nude woman beside a grapevine with quick, painterly strokes, aiming to translate the warmth and sensuality of his painted nudes into the graphic medium.
The spare sheet lets the eye rest on two gestural figures—one framed, one hovering beside it—whose lively, smoky washes and economy of line give the scene the feeling of a fleeting, intimate glimpse.
Made late in Renoir’s career, this print shows how Impressionist interests in light, movement, and the human body were adapted to lithography, linking the tradition of the academic nude to a more immediate, sketchlike modernism.
Medium
One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 5 9/16 x 3 13/16" (14.2 x 9.7 cm); sheet: 13 × 9 13/16" (33 × 25 cm)
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Credit
The Louis E. Stern Collection
Accession
1032.1964.12
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