France, 20th century / 1905
Young Woman Arranging Her Earring
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Young Woman Arranging Her Earring as painting (France, 20th century · 1905).
The model for this painting is Gabrielle Renard—a housekeeper, nursemaid, studio assistant, and frequent model to Renoir.
A CLOSER LOOK
The museum identifies this painting as oil on fabric and credits Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919).
The museum's collection notes: During his later years, Pierre-Auguste Renoir moved away from pure Impressionism toward a classicizing style featuring strong, monumental figures of substantial weight and volume. This depiction of a woman arranging her earrings, a superb example of that trend in the artist's late work, may have been inspired by one of the figures in Eugène Delacroix’s Women of Algiers in their Apartment (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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