# Romaine Lacaux, in Impressionism

Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted this in 1864, aged 23. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> This painting may be Renoir's earliest signed canvas. Its sensitive display of color and light communicates an ideal of delicate, youthful beauty.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1864
- Medium: oil on fabric
- Dimensions: Framed: 106.7 x 89.2 x 8.9 cm (42 x 35 1/8 x 3 1/2 in.); Unframed: 81.3 x 65 cm (32 x 25 9/16 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.1065
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Pierre-Auguste Renoir](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/pierre-auguste-renoir), French, 1841–1919

Renoir began as a painter of porcelain in Paris, then studied in Gleyre’s studio, where he met Monet, Sisley and Bazille. In the 1870s he was a central figure of Impressionism, painting Parisians at leisure in dappled light.

12 works in the collection.

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