Author

Contributions

  • Renoir, Auguste, 1841-1919. - Contributor

Publication

1997 - J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Calif, California

Language

English

Word Count

22,000 words, Guess

Page Count

88 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number97021894
  • LibraryThing3216188
  • Goodreads2888983

Classifications

  • DDC759.4
  • LCCND553.R45 A73 1997

Alternate Titles

  • Promenade

Description

John House examines the many facets of the work and what it reveals about Renoir as a man and artist. He asks, "What did it mean to paint a picture like La Promenade in France in 1870, in the final months of Napoleon III's Second Empire?" The reader is invited to look at the canvas - and Impressionism - as a rejection of the idealist world of academic art and as a challenge to contemporary social norms.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Getty Museum studies on art

Other Editions

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir: La promenadeJ. Paul Getty Museum1997-01-01

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