Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Girls at the Piano
| Year of creation: | 1892 |
| Original size: | 116.0 cm x 90.0 cm |
| Painting style: | Impressionism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | Musée d’Orsay, Paris |
Girls at the Piano is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir from 1892. The original measures 116.0 x 90.0 cm, is recorded under inventory number RF 755 and belongs to the collection of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. Our oil painting on canvas Girls at the Piano is painted by hand, in eight sizes from 60 x 80 to 130 x 170 cm.
A fair-haired girl in a white dress sits at an upright piano with her hands on the keys; a second girl, with auburn hair and in a pink-red dress, leans over her shoulder and points a finger at the open score. A green curtain falls behind them, a vase of flowers stands on the piano, and a gilt candle-holder is fixed to its front. The scene is domestic and quiet; the colours are soft and the outlines are nowhere sharp.
Our version is not a print. In this work the difference is easy to see: the white dress and the pink fabric are built from soft, overlapping strokes of oil colour, laid side by side with a brush. The paint keeps the thickness of the load and the track of the bristles, which printed paper cannot imitate, so a hand-painted painting reads differently under changing light than a flat printed surface does.
The warm, quiet subject in pinks, greens and whites works well in a living room, a bedroom, or a music room, where the picture should not take over the space. For a smaller wall 70 x 90 cm is enough; above a larger piece of furniture we recommend 100 x 130 cm.
We paint to order, and in other sizes on request. Before despatch we send you a photograph of the finished canvas for your approval. Every oil painting on canvas Girls at the Piano arrives ready to hang, stretched on a wooden frame.
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