# Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), in Impressionism

Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted this in 1878, aged 37. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> Marguerite Charpentier, wife of the publisher Georges Charpentier, sits in black silk in her fashionable Japanese-style salon, while her children, Georgette and Paul, dressed alike in blue and white, play beside her; Georgette perches on the family’s large Newfoundland dog.

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## The work

- Date: 1878
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 60 1/2 x 74 7/8 in. (153.7 x 190.2 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 07.122
- 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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