Vintage 1875 "The Rowers Lunch" Oil Painting Reproduction Print Matted by Pierre Auguste Renoir

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The Rowers Lunch 1875 Oil on Canvas Pierre Auguste Renoir 8 x 10 Matted Print NEW.

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Perfect for gift-giving, never used. This is a double-matted print, size 10" x 8" including the matting, ready for framing, sealed in its original shrink wrap with price sticker on the back. The window opening showing the print measures 5-1/2" x 4-1/2". The artist, Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a French artist, with an impressionist style. This is an offset lithograph reproduction of the original oil on canvas entitled, "The Rower's Lunch", 1875-76. The art shows people having lunch outdoors with rowboats in the background. The artist's signature is in the print. The back of the print states "Pierre Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919), The Rowers' Lunch, 1875-76, Oil on Canvas, 55.1 x 65.9 cm, Potter Palmer Collection, 1922.437, C.1991 The Art Institute of Chicago." UPC: 423050000460. Was a gift from the Museum Shop from the Art Institute in Chicago, IL. Stored in a cool dry place. Comes from a smoke-free/pet-free home.

About Pierre Auguste Renoir:
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born into a working-class family in Limoges, a city in the central west region of France. The area is historically significant as the center of French porcelain production, reaching that status during the 19th century. Fittingly, Renoir's first artistic job, during his teens, was as a painter in one of the town's porcelain factories. The son of a tailor and a seamstress, Renoir had a steady hand and a talent for decorative effect, which earned him praise from his employers and brought him to the attention of a growing customer base, including a number of wealthy patrons for whom he painted picture hangings and decorations for fans and other luxury objects. These early successes fed his desire to leave the factory and pursue fine arts painting. Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French Impressionist painter whose eye for beauty made him one of the movement's most popular practitioners. He is best known for his paintings of bustling Parisian modernity and leisure in the last three decades of the 19th century. Though celebrated as a colorist with a keen eye for capturing the movement of light and shadow, Renoir started to explore Renaissance painting in the middle of his career, which led him to integrate more lines and composition into his mature works and create some of his era's most timeless canvases. Renoir was essential to developing Impressionist style in the late 1860s, but there is a decidedly human element to his work that sets him apart. Renoir had a brilliant eye for both intimate domesticity and the day's fashions, and his images of content families and well-dressed Parisian pleasure-seekers created a bridge from Impressionism's more experimental aims to a modern, middle-class art public. Renoir was the first Impressionist to perceive the potential limitations of an art-based primarily on optical sensation and light effects. Though his discoveries in this field would always remain integral to his art, he reasserted the necessity of composition and underlying structure in modern painting, achieving in his mature work a structured, monumental style that acknowledged the strengths of High Renaissance art.

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