© Fitzwilliam Museum
Its oval shape is apparently unique in his work - probably executed for a particular location, for example an oval opening in panelling.
Provenance
By 1834, William Wells of Redleaf; Dr Lewis S.Fry, cousin of Roger Fry.
© Fitzwilliam Museum
Its oval shape is apparently unique in his work - probably executed for a particular location, for example an oval opening in panelling.
By 1834, William Wells of Redleaf; Dr Lewis S.Fry, cousin of Roger Fry.
Renoir's La Place Clichy presents a charming and apparently spontaneous impression of Parisian life. It is easy to see from this picture why one commentator described the artist as 'the true painter of young women, the bloom of whose skin, velvet flesh, darting eye, and elegant finery, he renders with sunlit gaiety.'
The 14th-century Macclesfield Psalter contains delightfully surreal marginal illustrations, including a dog dressed as a bishop, a rabbit riding a hound, and a series of grotesque figures with faces in their bottoms and legs emerging from their shoulders.