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This work was probably painted in the garden of the house at Essoyes in Burgundy where Renoir spent his summers from 1898. Its warm palette is typical of Renoir's late style. The pastoral subject-matter looks back, beyond Manet's ‘Dejeuner sur l'herbe’, to Venetian Renaissance art. It was purchased by Gwendoline Davies in Paris in 1917.

National Museum Wales, National Museum Cardiff

Title

Conversation

Date

1912

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 54.2 x W 65.2 cm

Accession number

NMW A 2494

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Gwendoline Davies, 1951

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Stretcher: Label: No.20942 Renoir Conversation PO,OOO Label: (fragment) BERNHEI Experts 25 Boule 36, Avenue de l'O Caisse No.2 Renoir 5 ko Label: Renoir no. 11007 Jeune homme et jeune femme assis (plein air) 1912 Label: n:2 Stencil: 15 Inscribed: 8051 DR 1100 20942 0 Frame: LOAN EXHIBITION ( In aid of the Friends of the National.... Agnew's Galleries London 1956 RENOIR Label: Name of Picture jeune femme assis (plein air) Label: ARTIST Renoir Signed: (bottom

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