Woman Tying her Shoe

Copyright

Work in the public domain
Image: Courtauld
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Maker


1841-1919

Title

Woman Tying her Shoe

Date of Production

c. 1918

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 50.5 cm (canvas)
Width: 56.5 cm (canvas)

Object Number

P.1932.SC.341

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1932

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display
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Keywords

  • shoelaces

Label Text

This is one of the final paintings Pierre-Auguste Renoir made before his death the following year. Having become disillusioned with Impressionism in the 1880s, he sought a style and subject matter that would align him with, in his words, the ‘grandeur and simplicity of the ancient painters’. A move from Paris to the south of France saw him forgo the modern urban subjects of works such as La Loge (Room 9) to focus instead on idealised images of women engaged in domestic activities like washing or dressing. It also encouraged his use of warm, opulent colours, applied in luscious brushstrokes.

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : signed : bottom left & recto : : Renoir

Provenance

Atelier Renoir, Cagnes; Galerie Barbazanges, Paris; The Independent Gallery, London; purchased by Samuel Courtauld September 1922; Courtauld Gift, 1932.

Exhibition History

Masterpieces of Impressionism from The Courtauld Gallery, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 10/09/2019-15/12/2019; Aichi Prefectural Museum, Nagoya, Japan, 03/01/2020-15/03/2020; Kobe City Museum, Kobe, Japan, 28/03/2020-21/06/2020
The Courtauld Collection. A Vision for Impressionism, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, 20/02/2019-17/06/2019
Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to Cezanne, National Gallery, London, 17/09/2018-20/01/2019
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Renoir and Intimacy, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 18/10/2016-22/01/2017
Renoir in Britain, The Lightbox, Woking, 08/02/2014-20/04/2014
The Late Renoir, Philadelphia Museum of Art & Philadelphia & USA, 10/06/2010-06/09/2010
Into the 20th century - New Displays at the Courtauld, Courtauld Gallery, London, 10/10/2002
The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 14/06/1998-21/09/1998
The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998
The Impressionists and after, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, 1947
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Literature

The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1998

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