Portrait of Jean Renoir (Portrait de Jean Renoir)

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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

Renoir frequently relied on his own children as models for his paintings. Here we have a depiction of the artist's second son, Jean, at the age of about three. Best known as the director of such classic French films as The Rules of the Game , Jean Renoir is captured in the innocence of care-free childhood. The work is both a casual portrait as well as a study in corals and reds, with the bow in the subject's hair accentuating his rosy cheeks and lips.

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