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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Embroiderers (Les Brodeuses)

c. 1902
Oil on canvas
101 × 81.5 cm (39.8 × 32.1 in)

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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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