Young Girls at the Piano, Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir·Young Girls at the Piano·1892·Oil on canvas·Musée d'Orsay, Paris↓

Pierre-Auguste Renoir French, 1841 – 1919

Young Girls at the Piano, 1892

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Two girls lean together over an upright piano in a comfortable bourgeois room, one in white with a blue sash seated and playing, the other in pink standing to follow the music. Renoir painted this version in 1892 for the state's Musée du Luxembourg and made several others for dealers and collectors, changing poses and details each time.

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Behind the girls, a heavy curtain and a vase of flowers on the piano set the domestic scene, handled in soft, feathery strokes.

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