Children of Martial Caillebotte, 1895 – Renoir Wall Art | Impressionist

Portraits of Children (The Children of Martial Caillebotte), painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1895, shows the young children of the artist's friend Martial Caillebotte gathered closely together, their faces and clothing modeled in warm rose, ochre, and cream tones. The brushwork is soft and feathered, building tender form from broken color in Renoir's mature manner. Family group portraits commissioned by close friends and patrons became a defining strand of Renoir's later work, allowing intimate domestic subjects without the formality of public portraiture. The picture distills a quiet moment of childhood into a luminous Impressionist study of figure and feeling.