Pierre-Auguste Renoir, calling card
Anonymous|Auguste Renoir
ca. 1864–1919
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 1 11/16 × 3 1/16 in. (4.3 × 7.7 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ephemera|Calling cards
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of F. C. Schang, 1977
Accession Number
1977.580.28
About the Artist
Anonymous|Auguste Renoir
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...