A Young Girl with Daisies by Renoir in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2008

Artist: Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)

Title: A Young Girl with Daisies

Date: 1889

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25 5/8 x 21 1/4 in. (65.1 x 54 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Jr. Purchase Fund, 1959

Accession Number: 59.21


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"I have taken up again, never to abandon it, my old style, soft and light of touch," Renoir announced to his dealer Durand-Ruel in 1888. Turning to the idle pastimes of young, middle-class girls, Renoir gave inimitable expression to his feeling that a picture, above all, "should be something likeable, joyous and pretty—yes, pretty. There are enough ugly things in life not to add to them." These paintings, which incline toward the graceful informality of Fragonard's work and the demure naturalism of Corot's, found a ready market in the early 1890s.


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