France, 19th century / c. 1894
Peasant Girl with Dog
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Peasant Girl with Dog as drawing (France, 19th century · c. 1894).
The art historian John Rewald supposedly called this work "one of the two or three most beautiful Renoir drawings in America."
A CLOSER LOOK
The museum identifies this drawing as red chalk and credits Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919).
The museum's collection notes: During the last decades of his career, Renoir worked prolifically in red chalk, which was used to develop a loose and sketchy style. In this drawing, the artist attempted to recapture the spontaneity that characterized Impressionist art a few decades earlier. By showing a young girl seated resting peacefully alongside a bale of hay, he idealized rural French life.
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