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Madame Charpentier and Her Children (Madame Charpentier et ses enfants), 1878 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Madame Charpentier and Her Children (Madame Charpentier et ses enfants), painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1878, gathers Marguerite Charpentier and her two young children, Georgette and Paul, in the family’s fashionable Japanese-influenced drawing room, with the family’s Newfoundland-cross dog stretched at their feet. The brushwork is fluid and confident, the palette built on deep blacks, warm golds, and delicate blues that set off the sitters’ pale skin against the richly patterned interior. Exhibited at the Salon of 1879 thanks to Madame Charpentier’s influence as the wife of Renoir’s publisher patron, the canvas was an unqualified triumph that helped secure Renoir’s reputation as a portraitist, and it has hung in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since 1907.
Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919). Date: 1878.
Madame Charpentier and Her Children (Madame Charpentier et ses enfants), 1878 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Grand Salon Portrait Wall Art Canvas Print.