Pinning the Hat (Le Chapeau épinglé)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
1897
A color lithograph by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1897) that gently records an intimate moment as one woman pins a flowered hat on another, rendered with the soft, painterly touch of his late style.
What strikes you is the velvety, crayon-like handling and warm, muted palette—the yellow hat with red blooms, the pale, softly modeled faces and the blurred, close-cropped composition—that together create a tender, almost overheard domestic moment.
Renoir here translates Impressionist brushwork into lithography, demonstrating how printmaking could carry the movement’s coloristic, tactile effects and intimate subjects into wider circulation.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
composition: 23 5/8 x 19 1/4" (60 x 48.9 cm); sheet: 30 x 24 1/2" (76.2 x 62.2 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Lillie P. Bliss Collection
Accession
117.1934
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