J.A. Dominique Ingres
Artist
Pierre Auguste Renoir
(French, 1841-1919)
Date1916-1917
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 27 in. (68.6 cm)
ClassificationsEuropean art
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.2046F
Terms
- Bronze
On View
Not on viewLabel TextPierre-Auguste Renoir French (1841-1919) Artist Portrait Roundels, 1916-17 Camille Corot J.-A. Dominique Ingres Eugene Delacroix Bronze Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.2046d-f Toward the end of his life, the Impressionist painter Renoir collaborated with Richard Guino in the production of a small number of bronze sculptures. The two were introduced by Renoir's dealer Ambrose Vollard. Vollard suggested that the painter, then seventy-one years old and confined to a wheelchair, create designs which Guino would translate into plaster and Vollard would cast in bronze. Among the fruits of their four-year association (1913-17) was a set of six bronze portrait medallions celebrating those French artists Renoir believed to be the finest of his era: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Eugène Delacroix, Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, and Auguste Rodin. Each of the artists had an impact on Renoir's art. The great painter Ingres, for example, had been a beacon for Renoir in the 1880s, when he labored to discipline the improvisational painting technique of Impressionism with a more controlled, classically-ordered approach to the human form. And in the revolutionary color theories of the Romantic painter Delacroix, Renoir saw the intellectual foundation for the brilliant, rainbow palette used by him and his fellow Impressionists. Edited By: DS Edited Date: 08/2005 Approved By: MHM Approval Date: 10/10/2005
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