Pierre-Auguste Renoir : La promenade
John House 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
Print Book, English, ©1997
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Calif., ©1997
Criticism, interpretation, etc
88 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
9780892363650, 0892363657
37109128
Introduction
The salon and the art trade : genre painting and the value of art
Reading genre paintings
The setting of "La Promenade"
The figure subject in "La Promenade"
The technique of "La Promenade"
Renoir's position in 1870
The place of "La Promenade" in Renoir's career