Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919)
Title: Le Chapeau Epingle (La Fille de Berthe Morisot et sa cousine), 3e plance (The hairpin hat)
Size/Dimensions: platemark: 4 11/16 x 3 5/16 inches, Sheet size: 13 x 9 13/16 inches
Frame type/size: Gilt wood, 15 ½ x 18 ½ Inches, matted, behind glass
Medium: Dry point Etching on paper
Date created or painted: 1894
Signed: Signed in the plate lower left
Numbered: No
Provenance: Christopher Clark Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, certificate included
 
Renoir was one of the fathers of Impressionism and exhibited in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 7th Impressionist exhibits. His paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated color, most often focusing on people in intimate and candid compositions. The female nude was one of his primary compositions. His works can be seen in all the major art museums around the world. Renoir did not make prints until he was nearly 50 years old, after he was an established Impressionist painter. Between 1890 and 1908 he made approximately 60 prints- roughly half etchings and half lithographs. This etching is of the painter Berthe Morisot’s (one of her etchings is also for sale) daughter, Julie, pinning flowers on her cousin Paulette’s broad-brimmed hat.