Description
Pierre A. Renoir – Ambroise Vollard Dressed as a Toreador
| Year of creation: | 1917 |
| Original size: | 83.6 cm x 102.6 cm |
| Painting style: | Impressionism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | Nippon Television Network Corporation, Tokyo |
Ambroise Vollard was a picture dealer and editor. He posed for four paintings for Renoir. Renoir was already 75 years old when posing for the present painting, in which he is dressed as a matador. He suffered from rheumatism, but he painted with great enthusiasm. Vollard remembers him in his notes while painting outside in nature; he needed help to move, and the brushes were attached to his fingers with strings.
