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Compare the yellow gloves and pale fan with the dark dress, then notice the muted reddish color behind the sitter.
The background was once much more intensely colored. Paint normally protected by the frame preserved evidence of a red pigment that faded in the exposed surface. Renoir also repositioned the sitter’s arm and hands during work. The portrait we see today records both the artist’s revisions and later changes in its materials.
Oil on canvas · 81.2 × 65.3 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Madame Léon Clapisson
- Artist
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)
- Date
- 1883
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 81.2 × 65.3 cm (32 × 25 3/4 in.); Framed: 103.2 × 87 × 10.8 cm (40 5/8 × 34 1/4 × 4 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.