We look slightly down onto a woman and a young boy, both with pale skin, sitting together on a grassy lawn with a chicken standing nearby in this horizontal painting. The scene is loosely painted with visible brushstrokes throughout. The woman sits with her body angled to our left, her legs stretched out in front of her. She turns her head to face us as she leans forward to rest her chin on one hand, with that elbow propped on her lap. She looks off to our left with dark eyes, and her coral-pink lips are parted. Her chestnut-brown hair is pulled up under a white bonnet, which is topped with…
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Madame Monet and Her Son

Auguste Renoir (French, 1841 - 1919)

1874

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 50.4 x 68 cm (19 13/16 x 26 3/4 in.) ; framed: 77.4 x 95.5 x 11.4 cm (30 1/2 x 37 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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