Jean Renoir Sewing
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1899–1900
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 55.4 × 46.3 cm (21 3/4 × 18 1/4 in.); Framed: 68.3 × 60.1 × 6.1 cm (26 7/8 × 23 5/8 × 2 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- oil on canvas
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
oil paintings (visual works)paintingportraits: child subjectnineteenth centuryblue (color)sons19th centurypaintfamiliescanvasImpressionismportraits: female subjectblueyellow (color)oil on canvasfrenchportraitoil paint (paint)painting (image making)painting techniqueschairsewingchildrenportraitsoil paintingeuropean paintingpink (color)
About
Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s son Jean, seen here, served as a model for his father from a young age. Renoir so loved the “silken gold” of his son’s long hair, then in fashion for little boys, that he insisted it remain long until Jean was seven, much to his embarrassment. Jean, later a prominent film director, recalled that the children’s nanny, Gabrielle, suggested that he keep himself occupied during the modeling session for this painting by sewing a satin coat for his toy camel.
