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| In the Meadow |
Artist:Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer)
Date:1888–92
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:32 x 25 3/4 in. (81.3 x 65.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Bequest of Sam A. Lewisohn, 1951
Accession Number:51.112.4
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 824
Between 1888 and 1892 Renoir painted a number of works in which the same pair of girls—the blonde wearing a white frock and the brunette a pink one—engage in leisurely pastimes. Here, they pick flowers; the same models appear at the piano in a painting now in the Museum's Lehman Collection (1975.1.201). These intimate genre scenes, which celebrate youthful innocence, found a ready market in the early 1890s.
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