Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Seated Nude
Alternate Title:
Nu assis
Image View:
Overall view with frame
Creator:
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French painter, 1841-1919)
Location:
repository: Musée Renoir (Cagnes-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France) RF 1961.3
Location Note:
19 Chemin des Collette; on loan from the Musee d'Orsay
GPS:
43.667652 7.157046
Date:
ca. 1895 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Nineteenth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Subjects:
human figure; nude in art
Description:
During the 1890s Renoir visited the great museums in Madrid, Dresden, Amsterdam and London, and this pursuit of the art of the past was reflected in his painting by a gradual return to a more fluid technique, which owed a great deal to French 18th-century painting as well as to Titian, Diego Velázquez and Peter Paul Rubens. The birth of his second son, Jean, in 1894, inspired a series of intimate scenes in which the dark-haired Gabrielle Renard, one of Renoir’s favorite models, also appeared. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-RENOIR-MR-NA-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Seated Nude