In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
This work is currently on loan to the exhibition "Renoir and Love" at the Musée d'Orsay, March 17-July 19, 2026, The National Gallery, London, October 3, 2026-January 31, 2027, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 20-June 13, 2027. Renoir painted this scene of a peasant girl holding a plump child during a trip to Naples in 1881. Dissatisfied with his drawing skills, he had traveled to Italy to study ancient frescoes and Renaissance masters; he was particularly inspired by the "simplicity and grandeur" of Raphael's paintings. One can see the Italian painter's influence here in the composition's balanced arrangement and the gentle interaction between the rosy-cheeked figures. This is perhaps Renoir's modern, secular take on the Madonna and Child subject.
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Mary Cassatt — A Child's Bath
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919) — Laundress and He
Mary Cassatt — Sleepy Thomas Sucking His Thumb
Mary Cassatt — Woman and Child
Pierre Bonnard — Boy Eating Cherries
Gustave Caillebotte — Portrait of Maurice Hugo as Child
Paul Cézanne — Jeune fille à la poupée
Vincent van Gogh — Madame Augustine Roulin with Baby
William Glackens — Lenna with Basket of Flowers
Pierre Bonnard — Grandmother with a Child
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926) — After the Bath
Édouard Manet — Laundry (Le Linge)
