The Descent from the Summit: Jean Martin Steadies Hélène, the Banker’s Daughter (Illustration for Edmond Renoir’s “L’étiquette”) (recto); Half-Length Sketch of a Woman (verso)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1881 · Black chalk (recto and verso) on ivory laid paper (discolored to tan)
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
The Descent from the Summit: Jean Martin Steadies Hélène, the Banker’s Daughter (Illustration for Edmond Renoir’s “L’étiquette”) (recto); Half-Length Sketch of a Woman (verso) is a public-domain drawing by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, dated 1881. Black chalk (recto and verso) on ivory laid paper (discolored to tan). The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“The Descent from the Summit: Jean Martin Steadies Hélène, the Banker’s Daughter (Illustration for Edmond Renoir’s “L’étiquette”) (recto); Half-Length Sketch of a Woman (verso)” (1881) 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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