Artist: Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841 – 1919)
Title: La Femme a l’evantail (Woman with a Fan)
Medium: Hand Pulled Copper plate etching with drypoint, printed in Black ink, on cream laid paper after the original oil on canvas by Auguste Marie Lauzet (1865 – 1898) .
Edition: Limited to only 50 examples.
Dimensions: Plate size 4 5/8 x 6 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 14 5/8 x 16 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
The Woman with the Fan is a portrait that represents the daughter of his friend Alphonse Fournaise and pays tribute to the Spanish pictorial tradition. The young woman, dressed in mauve and sitting in a red armchair, deploys a fan .
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, commonly known as Auguste Renoir; (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919), was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that “Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau.”