Boy with a Whip
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| Author: Pierre-Auguste Renoir |
| Portraiture, Painting, Oil on canvas, 105x75 cm |
| Origin: France, 1885 |
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This image of a child has come to epitomise the art of Renoir,
full of warmth and charm, reflecting the mood of his many portraits
of women. The subject is five-year-old Etienne Goujon, dressed
somewhat effeminately as was usual for little boys in the 1880s.
Produced at a time when the artist was looking closely at the art
of Ingres and of Raphael, seeking to revive a certain purity of
drawing, this painting contains a contrast between the precise
lines of the child's face and the freely applied brushstrokes of
the Impressionist landscape. This style became known as Renoir's
"hard" or "Ingres" style and it reflected the crisis in
Impressionism, a crisis experienced by all the artists in the
group. By the 1990s, the artist was to reject the use of hard lines
and his painting was to become increasingly free and gentle.
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| Style: Impressionism |
| Source of entry: State Museum of New
Western Art, Moscow, 1948 |
| Exibition: French Art: 19th - 20th
centuries |
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