Claude Renoir, Looking Down (La Tête baissée) 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 tender lithograph of the child Claude Renoir in which the artist seeks to evoke a private, contemplative moment rather than a posed likeness.
Your eye is held by soft, smoky tones and blurred edges—Renoir’s painterly, smudged marks make the downcast face feel intimate, fragile, and fleeting.
Made late in Renoir’s career, this print shows how he translated his Impressionist concern for light, softness, and everyday intimacy into lithography, expanding the medium’s expressive possibilities.
Medium
One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 7 11/16 x 7 11/16" (19.6 x 19.5 cm); sheet: 13 × 9 13/16" (33 × 25 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The Louis E. Stern Collection
Accession
1032.1964.3
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