The Hat Pinned with Flowers (Le Chapeau Épinglé)
1898
Medium
Color lithograph on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
image: 24 3/16 x 19 9/16 in. (61.5 x 49.7 cm) sheet: 35 5/8 x 24 15/16 in. (90.5 x 63.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931
Accession Number
31.82.5
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Art Historical Context
In 1898, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, leading figure of French Impressionism, created *The Hat Pinned with (Le Chapeau Épinglé)*, a color lithograph on off-white laid paper. This print captures the artist's signature fascination with light, color, and everyday beauty, here embodied in a young girl adorned with a hat festooned with blossoms. Measuring an impressive image size of 24 3/16 x 19 9/16 inches, it exemplifies Renoir's late-career exploration of printmaking, allowing him to disseminate his luminous style to a wider audience beyond oil paintings. Lithography, a planographic technique using g...
About the Artist
Auguste Renoir · 1841–1919
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a founding figure of Impressionism whose luminous depictions of Parisian leisure, sensuous female forms, and sun-dappled landscapes made him one of the most beloved painters in Western art history. Born in Limoges to a working-class family, Renoir began as a porcelain painter before pursuing fine arts, and this early craft experience gave him facility with the...