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Compare the older sitter’s red hat, the child’s flowers, and the basket of colored yarn. Notice how much more softly the river is painted.
Despite the title, the two models were not sisters. Renoir painted them at the Restaurant Fournaise in Chatou and showed the work at the 1882 Impressionist exhibition. Their carefully finished faces contrast with the looser trees and water behind the terrace railing.
Oil on canvas · 100.4 × 80.9 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Two Sisters (On the Terrace)
- Artist
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Date
- 1881
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 100.4 × 80.9 cm (39 1/2 × 31 7/8 in.); Framed: 119.1 × 100.1 × 9.6 cm (46 7/8 × 39 3/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial 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.