Acrobates au cirque Fernando
Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1879
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
“Renoir posed the Wartenberg sisters, real circus performers aged 14 and 17, in his studio rather than under the circus's harsh gas lighting, which he feared would turn "faces into grimaces."”
Painting Details
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
131.2 × 99.2 cm (51.7 × 39.1 in)
Painted at
Paris, France
Current location
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
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