Renoir, Auguste - Woman at her Toilet - nude - art postcard

Art Postcard
• Work of art title: Woman at Her Toilet
• Artist (if known):  Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
• Media or other details:  painting
• Publisher / Gallery:  Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): na
• Size: modern
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Stock No.: A430

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (US /r?n'w?r/ or UK /'r?nw?r/; French: [pj?? ogyst ??nwa?]; 1841�1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that ""Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau.""^[1]

Pierre-Auguste was the father of actor Pierre Renoir and filmmaker Jean Renoir.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France, the child of a working-class family. As a boy, he worked in a porcelain factory where his drawing talents led to his being chosen to paint designs on fine china.^[2] He also painted hangings for overseas missionaries and decorations on fans before he enrolled in art school.^[3] During those early years, he often visited the Louvre to study the French master painters.

In 1862, he began studying art under Charles Gleyre in Paris. There he met Alfred Sisley, Fr�d�ric Bazille, and Claude Monet.^[4] At times during the 1860s, he did not have enough money to buy paint. Although Renoir first started exhibiting paintings at the Paris Salon in 1864,^[5] recognition did not come for another ten years, due, in part, to the turmoil of the Franco-Prussian War.

During the Paris Commune in 1871, while Renoir painted on the banks of the Seine River, some Communards thought he was a spy, and were about to throw him into the river when a leader of the Commune, Raoul Rigault, recognized Renoir as the man who had protected him on an earlier occasion.^[6]

In 1874, a ten-year friendship with Jules Le C�ur and his family ended,^[7] and Renoir lost not only the valuable support gained by the association, but also a generous welcome to stay on their property near Fontainebleau and its scenic forest. This loss of a favorite painting location resulted in a distinct change of subjects.

Renoir's paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated colour, most often focusing on people in intimate and candid compositions. The female nude was one of his primary subjects. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of colour, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings.

His initial paintings show the influence of the colourism of Eug�ne Delacroix and the luminosity of Camille Corot. He also admired the realism of Gustave Courbet and �douard Manet, and his early work resembles theirs in his use of black as a color. As well, Renoir admired Edgar Degas' sense of movement. Another painter Renoir greatly admired was the 18th-century master Fran�ois Boucher.

A fine example of Renoir's early work, and evidence of the influence of Courbet's realism, is Diana, 1867. Ostensibly a mythological subject, the painting is a naturalistic studio work, the figure carefully observed, solidly modeled, and superimposed upon a contrived landscape. If the work is still a 'student' piece, already Renoir's heightened personal response to female sensuality is present. The model was Lise Tr�hot, then the artist's mistress and inspiration for a number of paintings.^[15]

In the late 1860s, through the practice of painting light and water en plein air (outdoors), he and his friend Claude Monet discovered that the colour of shadows is not brown or black, but the reflected color of the objects surrounding them, an effect today known as diffuse reflection. Several pairs of paintings exist in which Renoir and Monet, working side-by-side, depicted the same scenes (La Grenouill�re, 1869).

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