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

The Engaged Couple

c. 1868
Oil on canvas, 106 x 74 cm
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne

This painting is also titled (wrongly) Mr. and Mrs. Sisley. The painter Sisley is indeed recognizable, but the lively young lady on his arm is not in fact Sisley's companion but Renoir's favourite model at this period, Lise Tréhot. This is an outdoor scene in a town garden, which is suggested in a rather vague way.




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