Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Young women playing the piano was a recurring and favourite subject for Renoir. While the theme of youth and music had often been given allegorical treatment in French and Dutch art of the past, Renoir adopted the subject as an emblematic image of French bourgeois culture. The theme of cultivated innocence and domestic comfort underpinned much of the artist's work. This fresh and lively preparatory sketch was produced in response to an official commission from the French state.
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