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Léontine Reading, 1909 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Léontine Reading, painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1909 shows a dark-haired young woman in a red dress, chin resting in her hand, absorbed in a picture book laid open on the table before her, with a small framed landscape hanging on the wall behind. Painted at Renoir's home in Cagnes-sur-Mer during his late period, the canvas shows the warmer, looser handling and glowing red and gold palette that defined his final decade, when arthritis increasingly loosened his brushwork into broad, fluid strokes. Renoir painted many such quiet domestic scenes of young models reading or resting in these years, prizing everyday intimacy over grand narrative.
Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919). Date: 1909.
Léontine Reading, 1909 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Impressionist Portrait Wall Art Canvas Print.