Le chapeau épinglé (Pinning the Hat)
Le chapeau épinglé (Pinning the Hat)
Artist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
(French, 1841 - 1919)
Date1898
MediumColor lithograph with pastel additions
Dimensions24 x 19 1/4 in. (61 x 48.9 cm)
Framed: 39 11/16 x 32 1/2 x 1 1/8 in. (100.8 x 82.6 x 2.9 cm)
Framed: 39 11/16 x 32 1/2 x 1 1/8 in. (100.8 x 82.6 x 2.9 cm)
ClassificationsPrint
Credit LineAlfred Stieglitz Collection, Co-owned by Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
Signedl.r., in image: Renoir
Accession number
ASC.2012.17
On View
Not on viewCollections
Label TextPierre-Auguste Renoir, one of the masters of French Impressionism, was commissioned by art dealer Ambroise Vollard to create this lithograph. Alfred Stieglitz acquired the print from Vollard after he exhibited it in his 1910 group exhibition featuring works by Renoir, Manet, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin, and Henri Rousseau.
Pinning the Hat is a highly detailed print, produced through a complex process that required a separate print-run for each color. It is also one of Renoir’s largest prints. The subject is Julie Manet, Eduard Manet’s niece, the daughter of painter Berthe Morisot, whom Renoir used frequently as a model. She is pictured pinning flowers on the hat of her cousin, Paulette Gobillard.
This work was based on an earlier study Renoir produced during a family holiday on the northern coast of France. There are several versions of the scene, including a pastel and an oil painting made in 1893, and subsequently, three etchings and three lithographs. This lithograph demonstrates Renoir’s signature Impressionistic style, with light markings and vivid colors that capture the changes of shifting daylight.
