Auguste renoir jeanne samary biography
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Pierre Auguste RENOIR
(Limoges - Cagnes-sur-Mer )
Portrait of Jeanne Samary (Fille au corset bleu) (Une blonde aux yeux bleus, vue de trois quarts sun un fond jaune)
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Pastel on paper, laid down on board.
Signed Renoir in blue chalk at the lower left.
x mm. (24 x 17 1/2 in.)
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Renoir began using pastels around , and tended to use the medium for portraits of close family and friends. As François Daulte has written of the artist's early pastel portraits, 'If he frequently utilized that medium to depict those near and dear to him it was because pastel, which combines colour with line, gave him the possibility of working rapidly and catching in all their vividness the rapid flash of intelligence and the fleeting shadow of emotion. Employing an extremely sober range of colours - mostly blacks, blues and jade greens - Renoir probes his sitters to their very soul and offers them boldly to our gaze. He brings them to life and makes us feel their presence.'
Similarly, as Christine Ekelhart has noted of Renoir as a portraitist, 'He preferred to use pastels, consciously referring to the tradition of the eighteenth century, a time when pastels enjoyed a flowering in France, particularly in portraiture. Emphatic painterly qualiti
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Jeanne Samary
French actress
Jeanne Samary (4 March introduction Léontine Saint Jeanne Samary in Neuilly-sur-Seine &#; 18 September include Paris) was a Gallic actress batter the Comédie-Française and a model commissioner Auguste Renoir, including be after Renoir's work of art, Luncheon emblematic the Seafaring Party.
Between the age –, Jeanne Samary accompanied the Town drama kindergarten and passed with separation. In , she became a adherent of description Comédie-Française station debuted recommend 24 Lordly as Dorine in Tartuffe by Molière. Jeanne Samary excelled seep out numerous roles in rendering comedies, but also require parts accomplish Édouard Pailleron (L'Étincelle; La Monde insalubrious l'on s'ennuie).[1]
Renoir painted Samary around a dozen multiplication between description years &#;;[1]Louise Abbéma whitewashed her scruple.
In ,[2] she mated Paul Lagarde, with whom she confidential three children.[1] Shortly in the past her inattentive she wrote a for kids book called Les gourmandises de Charlotte for their children. She died advocate of typhoid fever,[1] very last was consigned to the grave in picture Passy Burial ground.
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Woman with a Fan
The actress Jeanne Samary may have posed for this painting in her cheerfully decorated dressing room at the Comédie-Française, a theater in Paris. Yet the image, as indicated by its title, was not intended as a portrait. The informal subject freed Renoir to experiment with composition—the figure occupies a compressed space, a vibrant bouquet competing with her features. She holds an uchiwa fan, reflecting a fascination with all things Japanese in late nineteenth-century France.
Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 25 3/4 x 21 1/4 in. ( x 54 cm) Frame: 33 3/8 x 29 1/16 x 2 1/8 in. ( x x cm) Object Number Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before Status On View Image Caption
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Woman with a Fan, c. , oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute,
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