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In this idealization of motherhood and rural life, Auguste Renoir depicted his future wife, Aline Charigot, with their son Pierre. Bright colors, including warm orange and yellow, are contrasted with cool blues and greens to create a dramatic impact. Renoir took full advantage of pastel’s unique optical properties, in which minute, irregular particles diffusely reflect light, allowing for an unparalleled velvety brilliance that is perfectly suited to portray the youthful bloom of the woman and child.
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149014
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Laundress and Her Child (Aline and Pierre)
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drawing
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149014
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drawing
title
Laundress and Her Child (Aline and Pierre)
description
In this idealization of motherhood and rural life, Auguste Renoir depicted his future wife, Aline Charigot, with their son Pierre. Bright colors, including warm orange and yellow, are contrasted with cool blues and greens to create a dramatic impact. Renoir took full advantage of pastel’s unique optical properties, in which minute, irregular particles diffusely reflect light, allowing for an unparalleled velvety brilliance that is perfectly suited to portray the youthful bloom of the woman and child.
date
c. 1886
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79929729
creators
1765
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Drawing
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1
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dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 81.5 x 65 cm (32 1/16 x 25 9/16 in.); Mounted: 82.6 x 65.9 cm (32 1/2 x 25 15/16 in.); Framed: 99 x 82.5 x 4.2 cm (39 x 32 1/2 x 1 5/8 in.)
cul
France, 19th century
accession
1977.167
Source extras
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pastel on brown paper
tombstone
Laundress and Her Child (Aline and Pierre), c. 1886. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919). Pastel on brown paper; sheet: 81.5 x 65 cm (32 1/16 x 25 9/16 in.); mounted: 82.6 x 65.9 cm (32 1/2 x 25 15/16 in.); framed: 99 x 82.5 x 4.2 cm (39 x 32 1/2 x 1 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Alexander Ginn, 1977.167
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
stamped, lower right, in black ink: Renoir [Lugt 2137b]
didYouKnow
Auguste Renoir also realized this composition as a painting in oil on canvas which is in the collection of the Barnes Foundation today.
citations
citation
André, Albert. <em>Renoir</em>. Paris: G. Crès and Cie., 1928.
page_number
Reproduced: pl. 35
citation
“Lists of Objects in the Exhibition.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 16, no. 9 (1929): 159–75.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 162
citation
Florisoone, Michel. <em>Renoir</em>. Translated by George Frederic Lees. Paris: Hyperion, 1938.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 66; Reproduced: p. 71
citation
Drucker, Michel. <em>Renoir</em>. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1944.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 187, 206, no. 82; Reproduced: pl. 82
citation
Rewald, John. <em>Renoir Drawings.</em> New York: H. Bittner, 1946.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 20, no. 46
citation
<em>Drawings from the Collection of Louis C. G. Clarke, LL. D., 1881–1960</em>. Exh. cat. Cambridge, UK: Fitzwilliam Museum, 1981.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 81
citation
White, Barbara Ehrlich. <em>Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters</em>. New York: Abrams, 1984..
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 175-76, 179; Reproduced: p. 178
citation
Ikegami, Chūji. <em>Kōki inshōha jidai</em>. Tōkyō: Shōgakukan, 1993.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 387, no. 28; Reproduced: p. 46
citation
Néret, Gilles. <em>Renoir: Painter of Happiness, 1841–1919</em>. Cologne: Taschen, 2001.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 365, 377; Reproduced: p. 367
citation
Collins, John. “Charigot, Aline.” In <em>Dictionary of Artists’ Models</em>, edited by Jill Berk Jiminez. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 117
citation
Dumas, Ann and John Collins. <em>Renoir's Women</em>. Exh. cat. Columbus: Columbus Museum of Art, 2005.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 59, 120; Reproduced: p. 57
citation
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville. <em>Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles</em>. Paris: Éditions Bernheim-Jeune, 2007.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: vol. 3, p. 445, no. 1394
citation
Amiot-Saulnier, Emmanuelle. <em>Renoir: Pastels, crayons, sanguines, aquarelles</em>. Paris: Hazan, 2009.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 44, 120, no. 31; Reproduced: p. 121
citation
Lucy, Martha. “Washerwoman and Child.” In Martha Lucy and John House, <em>Renoir in the Barnes Foundation</em>. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 115; Reproduced: p. 117
citation
Groom, Gloria and Jill Shaw, eds. <em>Renoir Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago</em>. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.
page_number
Mentioned: para. 14; Reproduced: fig. 6.9
citation
Perrin, Paul. “Madame Renoir.” In Lamia Guillaume, ed., <em>Un autre Renoir</em>. Exh. cat. Troyes: Musée d’Art Moderne, 2017.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 45
citation
White, Barbara Ehrlich. <em>Renoir: An Intimate Biography</em>. London: Thames and Hudson, 2017.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 145, 375n9, 377n60
citation
Le Foll, Joséphine. <em>L’Impressionnisme.</em> Paris: Citadelles and Mazenod, 2020.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 312
citation
Salsbury, Britany, Edgar Degas, and William Griswold. <em>Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism</em>. 2023.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 168, no. 50
citation
Salsbury, Britany. <em>Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Lewes, UK, Cleveland, Ohio: GILES; Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 144-145, no. 27
catalogueRaisonne
Dauberville 1394
creditline
Bequest of Alexander Ginn
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pastel on brown paper
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