Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009348Young Woman Arranging Her Earring
About the Artwork
During his later years, Pierre-Auguste Renoir moved away from pure Impressionism toward a classicizing style featuring strong, monumental figures of substantial weight and volume. This depiction of a woman arranging her earrings, a superb example of that trend in the artist's late work, may have been inspired by one of the figures in Eugène Delacroix’s Women of Algiers in their Apartment (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Inscriptions
Signed lower left: Renoir
Provenance
Bought from the artist by Durand-Ruel, Paris (stock number 8306) on 24 October 1906. Sold to Durand-Ruel, New York (stock number 3224), 19 October 1908. Sold to Mrs. G. Mather, 5 April 1911. William G. Mather, Cleveland. Bequeathed to the CMA on 26 July 1951.
Exhibition history
Fifty Years of French Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29-November 29, 1926). Renoir: Promise of Happiness. Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (Republic of) (organizer) (May 28-September 13, 2009).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)
- Date
- 1905
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 76.5 x 67.5 x 10 cm (30 1/8 x 26 9/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 55.3 x 46.4 cm (21 3/4 x 18 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Bequest of William G. Mather
- Accession no.
- 1951.324
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