Pinning the Hat (Le Chapeau épinglé)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
1897
A lithograph in which Renoir captures a private, domestic moment—one woman pinning a hat on another—aiming to translate his painterly warmth and tactile modeling into print.
Soft, smoky strokes and broad rhythmic contours greet you, making hair, fabric, and the ruffled hat feel sensuous and in motion as if caught in diffuse light.
Produced late in Renoir’s career, the print shows how Impressionist painters adapted their focus on light, touch, and everyday intimacy to lithography, helping to broaden the reach and legitimacy of painterly modernism through printmaking.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
composition: 24 1/16 x 19 15/16" (61.1 x 50.7cm); sheet: 29 × 21 1/4" (73.7 × 54 cm)
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Department
Credit
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Accession
505.1940
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