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Portrait of Edmond Maitre

Art Tidbits2013-5-2By: Marilyn Lightstone

 

I find this portrait by Renoir intriguing. Certainly one thinks of him, first and foremost, as a painter of women, usually young and pretty and much engaged in the social scene – a boating party, a dancing couple, a scene in a bar.

There are some portraits of people not quite so young and pretty, but they are generally very straight-up in style: heads and shoulders looking straight out at the viewer, not at all like this very thoughtful study of Edmond Maitre, engrossed in his reading, though his reputation was that of a dilettante and man-about-town.

Atypical, no doubt about it, but beautifully painted. I think I think even more of Renoir for knowing he painted it…

Portrait of Edmond Maitre aka The Reader by Pierre Auguste Renoir

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