Nini in the Garden by Renoir in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2010

Title: Nini in the Garden (Nini Lopez)

Artist: Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer)

Date: 1876

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 24 3/8 x 20 in. (61.9 x 50.8 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 2002, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002

Accession Number: 2002.62.2

Renoir's model, Nini Lopez, sits in the large garden adjacent to the artist's studio at 12 rue Cortot, in Montmartre. The same technique—varied brushstrokes of colors mixed with white—and interest in dappled light and violet shadows are found in Renoir's masterpiece of this period, Moulin de la Galette, 1876 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris).

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438010