Claude Renoir by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

(Le Tete Baissee)

C. 1904

D. 39

7 7/8" x 7 3/4"

Lithograph on wove paper. Signed in the stone, lower right. From the total edition of 1000 examples (50 examples were on Japan paper). Printed by Auguste Clot, Paris.

One of Twelve lithographs from "Douze Lithographies Originales de Pierre-Auguste Renoir," an album commissioned and published by Ambroise Vollard in 1919.

The lithographs were executed by Renoir in 1904-1905.

Stone effaced.

Claude Renoir was the artist's youngest son. Pierre-Auguste Renoir often used his children as models and drew much inspiration from them. This lithograph of Claude is said (in "Les Lithographies de Renoir" by Claude Roger-Marx) to have possibly been inspired by either of the many studies of him by the artist of by a painting "Portrait of Coco" (1900), as Claude was affectionately known to his family.

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