Woman by the Grapevine, First Variant (Femme au cep de vigne, 1re 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 lithograph by Pierre-Auguste Renoir that translates his painterly, sensual study of a standing nude beside a grapevine into the language of print.
What strikes you is the sketchlike immediacy—blurred gray washes and quick, confident strokes that suggest volume and movement so the figure seems to appear from and dissolve into the ground.
Made late in Renoir’s career and issued in a portfolio of twelve lithographs, this work shows how Impressionist concerns for tactile flesh, rhythmic brushwork, and fleeting presence were adapted to printmaking, helping revive a painterly approach to early twentieth‑century graphic art.
Medium
One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 6 7/8 x 4 5/8" (17.5 x 11.8 cm); sheet: 13 × 9 13/16" (33 × 25 cm)
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Credit
The Louis E. Stern Collection
Accession
1032.1964.9
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