Woman Crocheting (Femme faisant du crochet)
c. 1877
Oil on canvas
41 × 32.5 cm (16.1 × 12.8 in)
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Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia · verified July 2026
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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
During the 1870s, alongside his ambitious modern life subjects such as Leaving the Conservatory, Renoir painted many canvases of single figures. Some of these were portraits, but most were more generic, showing unidentified figures, generally bust length, focusing on their everyday activities. Woman Crocheting is one of the most elaborated and highly finished of these canvases.
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