Paul Cézanne
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
c. 1902
A lithograph portrait by Pierre-Auguste Renoir of a fellow artist, made to convey the sitter’s presence and character through loose, painterly marks.
The head and shoulders seem to emerge from a wide pale margin, rendered in charcoal-like strokes and soft smudges that give the balding, bearded face a pensive, immediate presence.
The print exemplifies how late-19th–century painters used lithography to translate painterly effects into reproducible form, facilitating intimate likenesses and the exchange of ideas within their artistic circle.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
composition: 11 1/8 x 9 7/16" (28.3 x 24 cm); sheet: 22 3/16 × 18" (56.4 × 45.7 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Accession
507.1940
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