Young Girl in a Pink-and-Black Hat
Auguste Renoir
ca. 1891
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
16 x 12 3/4 in. (40.6 x 32.4 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Kathryn B. Miller, 1964
Accession Number
64.150
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
PortraitsGirls
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...