Pierre-August Renoir

Sailor Boy (Portrait of Robert Nunès)



Pierre-August Renoir - Sailor Boy (Portrait of Robert Nunès)


Robert Nunès was the son of Alfred Nunês, the mazor of Zport. In 1883 he commissioned Renoir to paint his children Aline and Robert. Nunès was a cousin of Camille Pissarro.




Pierre-August Renoir
Sailor Boy (Portrait of Robert Nunès)
1883
130.2 x 80 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated (lower right): Renoir, 83.
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia


Literature

Collection catalogues
Great French paintings from the Barnes Foundation, New York, 1993, pp. 60-63

Literature
Gilles Néret, Renoir, Köln, 2019, p. 283


External links

Barnes Foundation Accession number BF325

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