Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children
| Year of creation: | 1878 |
| Original size: | 153.7 cm x 190.2 cm |
| Painting style: | Impressionism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir from 1878. The original measures 153.7 x 190.2 cm, is recorded under inventory number 07.122 and belongs to the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Our canvas wall art Madame Charpentier and Her Children is a hand-painted painting in oil on canvas, in eight landscape sizes from 80 x 65 to 170 x 140 cm.
A woman in an elaborate black dress with a long train sits on a flowered sofa. Beside her are two small children in matching pale blue dresses: the younger seated on the sofa, the elder on the back of a large black and white dog lying on the floor. Behind them stands a Japanese screen with bamboo and birds, and to the right a small table with flowers, fruit and a carafe. The scene is broad and settled; the eye travels from the black of the dress to the pale blue of the children’s clothes and back.
Our version is not a print. In this subject the difference is easy to see: the black dress is not one dark surface but a run of individual strokes of oil colour with blue and brown reflections, 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 an oil painting on canvas reads differently under changing light than a flat printed surface does.
The landscape format is made for a wide wall — above a sofa, in a dining room, or in an entrance hall, where an upright picture would not fill the space. For a smaller wall 100 x 80 cm is enough; above a larger piece of furniture we recommend 130 x 110 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 canvas wall art Madame Charpentier and Her Children arrives ready to hang, stretched on a wooden frame.
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