By the Seashore
By the Seashore | |
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Artist | Pierre-Auguste Renoir |
Year | 1883 |
Medium | oil paint, canvas |
Dimensions | 92.1 cm (36.3 in) × 72.4 cm (28.5 in) |
Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Accession No. | 29.100.125 |
Identifiers | The Met object ID: 437430 |
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By the Seashore is a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir completed in 1883 and is now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[1]
History
Renoir made a trip to Italy in 1881-82 and was deeply influenced by Renaissance art. After this trip he began to explore a new manner of painting, different from impressionism. He started to emphasize contours and modeling, abandoned the principle that scenes should be painted outdoors to capture light and atmosphere.[2]
Late in the summer of 1883, Renoir spent about a month in St. Peter Port, the capital of Guernsey, and admired the rocks, cliffs and stunning view of Moulin Huet Bay in St. Martin. He painted the starts of fifteen pictures during his stay, most of which were finished later in his Paris studio. Guernsey lies 48 km off the coast of mainland Normandy. Both share the same geology and Guernsey fulfills the "by the sea" criterion in the exhibition title.[3]
However, By the Seashore is thought to have been painted in the artist's studio.[1] The beach depicted here is probably not in the Channel Islands but near Dieppe, on the Normandy coast. The model was Aline Charigot, his then girlfriend, whom he married in 1890.[2] The arc of the sitter's dark eyebrows and saucily tilted nose in that pleasant, rosy-cheeked face are common to works by Renoir.
By the Seashore proto-typically reflects this period in Renoir's art. He worked with small compositions in the field that he then pulled together in more elaborate, larger works while in his studio. He was also playing with the disparity of space and scale between figure and background at this time. [3]
Provenance
The painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan since 1929 from the bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer.[4]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Auguste Renoir | by the Seashore". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
- ^ a b "By the seashore - by Pierre-Auguste Renoir". www.renoir.net. Retrieved 2021-12-10.
- ^ a b House, John (1973). "The Impressionists in London". The Burlington Magazine. 115 (840): 194–197. ISSN 0007-6287. JSTOR 877265.
- ^ Collins, Amy Fine (1987). "Review of The Havemeyers: Impressionism Comes to America". Woman's Art Journal. 8 (2): 49–52. doi:10.2307/1358168. ISSN 0270-7993. JSTOR 1358168.
Sources
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (information table beside the painting)
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- List of paintings
- Portrait of William Sisley (1864)
- Mother Anthony's Tavern (1866)
- Diana (1867)
- Lise with a Parasol (1867)
- Frédéric Bazille at his Easel (1867)
- A Couple (Les Fiancés) (1868)
- In Summer (1868)
- Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne (1868)
- Léonard Renoir, The Artist's Father (1869)
- La Grenouillère (1869)
- A Nymph by a Stream (1869-70)
- L'Algérienne (1870)
- La Promenade (1870)
- Bather with a Griffon Dog (1870)
- Woman with Parakeet (1871)
- The Harem (1872)
- Le Pont-Neuf (1872)
- Claude Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteuil (1873)
- La Parisienne (1874)
- La Loge (1874)
- The Grand Boulevards (1875)
- Portrait of the Painter Claude Monet (1875)
- In the Garden - Under the Arbour at the Moulin de la Galette (1875)
- Woman with a Cat (1875)
- Bal du moulin de la Galette (1876)
- Nude woman sitting on a couch (Anna) (1876)
- The Swing (1876)
- A Girl with a Watering Can (1876)
- Mother and Children (1876)
- At the Theatre (1876-1877)
- Eugène Murer (1877)
- The Day Dream (1877)
- The Cup of Chocolate (1878)
- Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children (1878)
- Portrait of Jeanne Samary (1878)
- Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (1879)
- Paysage Bords de Seine (1879)
- Portrait of Irène Cahen d'Anvers (La Petite Irène) (1880)
- Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881)
- Pink and Blue (1881)
- Two Sisters (On the Terrace) (1881)
- Young Women in Black (1880-1882)
- Blonde Bather (1881 and 1882)
- The Umbrellas (1880–81, 1885–86)
- By the Seashore (1883)
- Dance at Bougival (1883)
- Dance in the City (1883)
- Dance in the Country (1883)
- Les Grandes Baigneuses (1884–1887)
- Nature morte: fleurs (1885)
- The Braid (1886-1887)
- Young Woman with a Blue Ribbon (1888)
- Girls at the Piano (1892)
- Yvonne and Christine Lerolle at the Piano (1897)
- Woman Playing a Guitar (1897)
- Gabrielle with Open Blouse (1907)
- Nude (1910)
- After the Bath (1910)
- The Coast at Cagnes, Sea, Mountains (c. 1910)
- Portrait of Ambroise Vollard in a Red Headscarf (1911)
- The Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes (c. 1908–1914)
- Blond Girl with a Rose (1915–1917)
- Portrait of Adèle Besson (1918)
- The Bathers (1918–19)
- Venus Victorious (c. 1914)
- A Studio at Les Batignolles (1870 painting)
- Bazille's Studio (1870 painting)
- The Impressionists (2006 series)
- Renoir (2012 film)
- Aline Charigot (wife)
- Lucienne Bisson (daughter)
- Pierre Renoir (son)
- Jean Renoir (son)
- Claude Renoir (son)
- Claude Renoir (grandson)
- Alain Renoir (grandson)
- Pierre Roland Renoir (great-grandson)
- Sophie Renoir (great-granddaughter)
- Musée de Montmartre, home and studio
- Gabrielle Renard (nanny, later model)
- Lise Tréhot
- Marguerite Legrand
- Catherine Hessling
- Richard Guino
- Jeanne Samary
- Suzanne Valadon
- Henriette Henriot
- Jane Henriot (child model)
- Raoul Rigault
- Jeanne Baudot (his only student)
- Maison Fournaise
- Pays des Impressionnistes
- Renoir (crater)
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