Claude Monet
Artist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
(French, 1841 - 1919)
CultureFrench
Date1916-1917
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 27 3/16 in. (69.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.2046C
Not on view
DescriptionOne of a set of six portrait medallions. This one of Claude Monet.Label TextPierre-Auguste Renoir French (1841-1919) Artist Portrait Roundels, 1916-17 Auguste Rodin Claude Monet Paul Cezanne Bronze Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.2046a-c 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: 10/10/2005Exhibition History"Behind the Seen: The Chrysler's Hidden Museum," Large Changing Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., October 21, 2005 - February 19, 2006. "Renoir: La maturitá tra classic e moderno," Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Italy, March 7 - June 29, 2008 Published ReferencesBarbara Ehrlich White, IMPRESSIONISTS SIDE BY SIDE: THEIR FRIENDSHIPS, RIVALRIES, AND ARTISTIC EXCHANGES (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1996), black and white ill.104. Kathleen Adler, et .al., _Renoir: La maturitá tra classic e moderno_, exh. cat., Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Itlay, 2008, 324-329 ISBN: 9788861306189
