Workers' Daughters on the Outer Boulevard (Illustration for Émile Zola's "L'Assommoir") - Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The Regenstein Collection

"Workers' Daughters on the Outer Boulevard (Illustration for Émile Zola's "L'Assommoir")" by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1877/78) Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper.

Commentary

"Workers' Daughters on the Outer Boulevard (Illustration for Émile Zola's "L'Assommoir")" by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1877/78) invites a close look at how form and feeling work together. Themes to notice include Impressionism, pe n and ink drawings. This piece is held in the source collection's Prints and Drawings collection. Pierre-Auguste Renoir is the artist behind this work. A useful anchor for reading the piece: Pierre Auguste Renoir French, 1841-1919. The work is cataloged within a France cultural context. It is associated with the Impressionism period. How to look at this work: It is cataloged as pen and ink drawings, which gives a clue to how the museum frames the object. Its medium (Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper) affects texture, durability, and how detail reads at different distances. Its listed dimensions (27.5 × 39.9 cm (10 7/8 × 15 3/4 in.)) suggest how intimate or monumental it may feel in person. Subject cues from the catalog include Impressionism, pen and ink drawings. Compare this reading with the museum record at the source collection: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/105461

Sources: Art Institute of Chicago; Art Institute of Chicago / Public Records; Art Institute of Chicago Collection Data