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Laundress and Her Child (Aline and Pierre)

c. 1886

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

(French, 1841–1919)
Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
pastel on brown paper
Measurements
Sheet: 81.5 x 65 cm (32 1/16 x 25 9/16 in.); Mounted: 82.6 x 65.9 cm (32 1/2 x 25 15/16 in.); Framed: 99 x 82.5 x 4.2 cm (39 x 32 1/2 x 1 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Alexander Ginn 1977.167
Catalogue raisonné
Dauberville 1394
Public Domain
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Did You Know?

Auguste Renoir also realized this composition as a painting in oil on canvas which is in the collection of the Barnes Foundation today.

Description

In this idealization of motherhood and rural life, Auguste Renoir depicted his future wife, Aline Charigot, with their son Pierre. Bright colors, including warm orange and yellow, are contrasted with cool blues and greens to create a dramatic impact. Renoir took full advantage of pastel’s unique optical properties, in which minute, irregular particles diffusely reflect light, allowing for an unparalleled velvety brilliance that is perfectly suited to portray the youthful bloom of the woman and child.
Sunny pastel drawing of a woman facing our left, holding her child, kissing him on the cheek, both with light skin tones and shaded in fine lines streaking diagonally across the page. The child, wearing an orange dress, faces our right and leans in to wrap his arms around his mother who wears an off-the-shoulder white top and yellow-orange skirt. In the background, among green and blue strokes of grass, another hangs laundry on a line.

Laundress and Her Child (Aline and Pierre)

c. 1886

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

(French, 1841–1919)
France, 19th century

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