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John House, "Pierre-Auguste Renoir: La Promenade"
Publisher: J. Paul Getty | 1997 | ISBN: 0892363657 | English | PDF | 94 pages | 14.9 Mb

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To late-twentieth-century eyes, Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s La Promenade raises few questions and poses few problems; indeed, little has been written about the picture, despite its regular appearance in exhibitions and the Renoir literature. This study of the work—a masterpiece from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum—reveals surprising details about the artistic, historical, and moral contexts in which the painting was created.

John House, the author of this fascinating monograph, examines the many facets of the work and what it reveals about Renoir as a man and artist. He asks, “What did it mean to paint a picture like La Promenade in France in 1870, in the final months of Napoleon III’s Second Empire?” The reader is invited to look at the canvas—and Impressionism—as a rejection of the idealist world of academic art and as a challenge to contemporary social norms.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir: La Promenade is part of the Getty Museum Studies on Art series, designed to introduce individual artworks or small groups of related works to a broad public with an interest in the history of art.

Each monograph is written by a leading scholar and features a close discussion of its subject as well as a detailed analysis of the broader historical and cultural context in which the work was created.

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