Puzzlewood 300pc Renoir Young Girls at the Piano adj DSC07178
A 300pc jigsaw cut by Heather Prydderch of Puzzlewood. Here you see the back showing the line-cutting. The jigsaw is no438, and measures 11 x 14.4in. A pleasant jigsaw, which would have been more difficult as a push-fit, with no lugs crossing colour boundaries.
We saw this painting last autumn in New York at the Metropolitan Museum. It is Renoir's Young Girls at the Piano of 1892. Renoir painted three other variations of this composition in oil and two sketches, one in oil and one in pastel. Known by the artist as repetitions, they were executed to fulfill commissions from dealers and collectors. The work is on public display at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris.
"In late 1891 or early 1892 Renoir was invited by the French government to execute a painting for a new museum in Paris, the Musée du Luxembourg, which was to be devoted to the work of living artists. He chose as his subject two girls at the piano. Aware of the intense scrutiny to which his submission would be subjected, Renoir lavished extraordinary care on this project, developing and refining the composition in a series of five canvases. The Lehman painting and the nearly identical version formerly in the collection of Renoir's fellow Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte have long been regarded as the most accomplished variants of this intimate and engaging scene of bourgeois domestic life."
Puzzlewood 300pc Renoir Young Girls at the Piano adj DSC07178
A 300pc jigsaw cut by Heather Prydderch of Puzzlewood. Here you see the back showing the line-cutting. The jigsaw is no438, and measures 11 x 14.4in. A pleasant jigsaw, which would have been more difficult as a push-fit, with no lugs crossing colour boundaries.
We saw this painting last autumn in New York at the Metropolitan Museum. It is Renoir's Young Girls at the Piano of 1892. Renoir painted three other variations of this composition in oil and two sketches, one in oil and one in pastel. Known by the artist as repetitions, they were executed to fulfill commissions from dealers and collectors. The work is on public display at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris.
"In late 1891 or early 1892 Renoir was invited by the French government to execute a painting for a new museum in Paris, the Musée du Luxembourg, which was to be devoted to the work of living artists. He chose as his subject two girls at the piano. Aware of the intense scrutiny to which his submission would be subjected, Renoir lavished extraordinary care on this project, developing and refining the composition in a series of five canvases. The Lehman painting and the nearly identical version formerly in the collection of Renoir's fellow Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte have long been regarded as the most accomplished variants of this intimate and engaging scene of bourgeois domestic life."