On the Terrace of a Hotel in Bordighera: The Painter Jean Martin Reviews His Bill (Illustration for Edmond Renoir’s “L’étiquette”)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1881 · Black conté crayon over pen and brush and black ink on ivory laid paper (discolored to cream)
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
On the Terrace of a Hotel in Bordighera: The Painter Jean Martin Reviews His Bill (Illustration for Edmond Renoir’s “L’étiquette”) is a public-domain drawing by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, dated 1881. Black conté crayon over pen and brush and black ink on ivory laid paper (discolored to cream). The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“On the Terrace of a Hotel in Bordighera: The Painter Jean Martin Reviews His Bill (Illustration for Edmond Renoir’s “L’étiquette”)” (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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