RENOIR, Pierre-Auguste
(b, 1841, Limoges, d. 1919, Cagnes-sur-Mer)

Children's Afternoon at Wargemont

1884
Oil on canvas, 127 x 173 cm
Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Renoir had numerous patrons from the newly prosperous professional class of later-nineteenth-century Paris. This led to his keen sense for the harmony of ideal bourgeois domestic happiness in the Children's Afternoon at Wargemont