Woman Seated in a Chair (recto); Woman in a Chair, Seen from the Back (verso)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · c. 1883 · Charcoal, with graphite and touches of stumping and erasure (recto), and graphite (verso) on ivory wove paper
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Woman Seated in a Chair (recto); Woman in a Chair, Seen from the Back (verso) is a public-domain drawing by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, dated c. 1883. Charcoal, with graphite and touches of stumping and erasure (recto), and graphite (verso) on ivory wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Woman Seated in a Chair (recto); Woman in a Chair, Seen from the Back (verso)” (c. 1883) is the kind of picture Renoir built from soft, decorative color, first learned while he painted porcelain.
About the artist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) was a French Impressionist painter of figures, dance halls, and later warm nudes and still lifes. He trained as a porcelain painter, which shows in the soft, decorative color.
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