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Source Description
During the last decades of his career, Renoir worked prolifically in red chalk, which was used to develop a loose and sketchy style. In this drawing, the artist attempted to recapture the spontaneity that characterized Impressionist art a few decades earlier. By showing a young girl seated resting peacefully alongside a bale of hay, he idealized rural French life.
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Document identity
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127235
label
Peasant Girl with Dog
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obj
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drawing
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1
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127235
contentType
drawing
title
Peasant Girl with Dog
description
During the last decades of his career, Renoir worked prolifically in red chalk, which was used to develop a loose and sketchy style. In this drawing, the artist attempted to recapture the spontaneity that characterized Impressionist art a few decades earlier. By showing a young girl seated resting peacefully alongside a bale of hay, he idealized rural French life.
date
c. 1894
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60752500
creators
1765
genreSpecific
Drawing
imageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 31 x 24.1 cm (12 3/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
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France, 19th century
accession
1949.551
Source extras
tec
red chalk
tombstone
Peasant Girl with Dog, c. 1894. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919). Red chalk; sheet: 31 x 24.1 cm (12 3/16 x 9 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1949.551
supportMaterials
description
ivory modern laid paper, discolored
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
signed, lower left, in red chalk: Renoir ; verso, upper left, in graphite: 8 ; upper left, in graphite: 41 x 50 ; lower left, on paper strip mounted to sheet, in graphite: 77
didYouKnow
The art historian John Rewald supposedly called this work "one of the two or three most beautiful Renoir drawings in America."
citations
citation
Vollard, Ambroise. <em>La vie et l’oeuvre de Pierre-Auguste Renoir</em>. Paris: Vollard, 1919.
page_number
Reproduced: frontispiece
citation
Meier-Graefe, Julius. <em>Auguste Renoir</em>. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1920.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 139
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Meier-Graefe, Julius. <em>Renoir</em>. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1929.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 443, no. 238; Reproduced: pl. 238
citation
<em>Ein Jahrhundert Französischer Zeichnung</em>. Exh. Cat. Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1929.
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Mentioned: p. 80, no. 93
citation
"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, April - June 1953." <em>Art Quarterly</em> 16 (Winter 1953).
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Mentioned: p. 353
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 607
citation
<em>Renoir, Degas: A Loan Exhibition of Drawings, Pastels, Sculptures</em>. Exh. Cat. New York: Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, 1958.
page_number
Mentioned: no. 62; Reproduced: pl. XLII
citation
<em>Nineteenth Century Master Drawings</em>. Exh. Cat. Newark: Newark Museum, 1961.
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Mentioned and reproduced: no. 46
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
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Reproduced: p. 177
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
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Reproduced: p. 177
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
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Reproduced: p. 219
citation
Pharisien, Bernard. <em>Renoir de vigne en vin à Essoyes</em>. Bar-sur-Aube: Nemont, 2012.
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Reproduced: p. 23
citation
Guillaume, Lamia.<em> Un autre Renoir. </em>Exh. Cat. Troyes: Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Troyes, 2017.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 60
creditline
John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 06:33:29.252000
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127235
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Drawings
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DR - French
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red chalk
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male
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