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| Eugène Murer (Hyacinthe-Eugène Meunier, 1841–1906) |
Artist:Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer)
Date:1877
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:18 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (47 x 39.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002
Accession Number:2003.20.9
Murer was an artist, celebrated pastry cook, restaurateur, novelist, poet, and avid collector of Impressionist paintings. By 1887, ten years after he sat for this portrait, he had amassed some 122 works by his painter-friends, including 15 by Renoir, whom he called "the greatest artist of our century." It has been suggested that Murer’s pose and gaze in this work served as a model for Van Gogh’s famous portrait of another great Impressionist collector, Dr. Paul-Ferdinand Gachet (private collection), Murer’s neighbor in Auvers.
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