In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
These women are embroidering a tapestry, an artisanal practice that was quickly being replaced by the machine in industrializing 19th-century Europe. Renoir disdained modern technology. In his writings from the mid-1880s, he repeatedly condemns the regularizing effects of mechanization and its undermining of long-held values of craftsmanship.
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Auguste Renoir — Head of a Young Girl
Auguste Renoir — Two Young Girls at the Piano
William Merritt Chase — A Friendly Call
Mary Cassatt — The Loge
Auguste Renoir — Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971
Mary Cassatt — Woman with a Sunflower
Auguste Renoir — Girl with a Hoop
Auguste Renoir — The Daughters of Catulle Mendès, Huguette (
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919) — The Apple Seller
William Glackens — Seated Woman with Fur Neckpiece and Red B
Auguste Renoir — Suzanne Valadon
Isaac Israels — Modistenatelier
