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Claude Monet lisant
Claude Monet Reading
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1873
Musée Marmottan Monet
Paris, France
About this painting
Renoir portrays his close friend Claude Monet absorbed in a newspaper, pipe in hand — an informal, unposed glimpse of the fellow Impressionist rather than a formal portrait commission.
Painting Details
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
61.7 × 50 cm (24.3 × 19.7 in)
Painted at
Paris, France
Current location
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
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