Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Mother Anthony’s Tavern
| Year of creation: | 1866 |
| Original size: | 194.0 cm x 131.0 cm |
| Painting style: | Realism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
| Image source: | Pierre-Auguste Renoir / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, modified (cropped and resized) |
Mother Anthony’s Tavern is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir from 1866. The original measures 194.0 x 131.0 cm, is recorded under inventory number NM 2544 and belongs to the collection of the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. Our art reproduction Mother Anthony’s Tavern is a hand-painted painting in oil on canvas, in eight sizes from 60 x 90 to 120 x 170 cm.
The scene is set in the parlour of an inn. At the left edge a serving woman in a black dress and white apron stacks the plates; at the white-clothed table sit a young man in a dark coat with a soft tie and a man in a pale straw hat seen from behind; between them a bearded man stands in a blue working smock, and further back an older woman in a dark cap is barely made out. A shaggy white poodle lies on the floor and an open newspaper rests on the table. The wall behind them is covered with caricatures, a face and a line of musical notation left by earlier guests.
Our version is not a print. The work lives on the soft transitions in the grey of the wall and on the dense white paint of the tablecloth and the dog’s coat; both are built from individual 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 an oil painting on canvas reads differently under changing light.
The large upright format and the quiet brown-grey range work well in a dining room, in a restaurant, or in a wide hallway, where the picture carries from a distance. For a smaller wall 70 x 100 cm is enough; for an open living space we recommend 100 x 150 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 art reproduction Mother Anthony’s Tavern arrives ready to hang, stretched on a wooden frame.
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