France, 19th century / c. 1890
The Apple Seller
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs The Apple Seller as painting (France, 19th century · c. 1890).
Using repetitive, soft, light-of-touch brushstrokes to form patches of color, Renoir creates a sense of dappled light that reflects on the ground and caresses the figures, giving the painting an ethereal, dreamlike quality.
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The museum identifies this painting as oil on fabric and credits Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919).
The museum's collection notes: This painting depicts a young country girl offering apples to Renoir's wife, Aline. The boy in the straw hat may be the artist's nephew, Edmond, but the young girl with the ribbon in her hair has not been identified. Bathed in soft, dappled sunlight, the figures are united through the fluid brushstrokes that cover the canvas. The leaping dog provides an accent of humor and motion in an otherwise tranquil scene. The picture was probably completed at Essoyes, in eastern France.
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