La Lecture du rôle

Painting · 9 × 7 cm

May one see it?

Unknown

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims

Reims, France

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

In this state since: Oct 5, 2026
Source: The museum

On the map Museum page

About the painting

In the museum's own words — in French

Huile sur bois ; Jeune femme en buste, légèrement de trois-quarts gauche, mains jointes, le bras droit reposant sur un dossier, regardant face à elle un homme lui lisant une lettre, tandis qu'un second est visible derrière elle.

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims

Particulars

Accession number: 907.19.222

What it shows

Scène, groupe de figures (lecture, scène, intérieur, acteur, groupe de figures, en buste, de trois-quarts, femme, homme, assis, de dos, tête, noeud (orn.), chapeau)

In the catalog

Paintings Oil French painting Realism Impressionism 19th century France

Sources

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims
Image: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims — © Christian DEVLEESCHAUWER; Ministère de la Culture (France), base Joconde

Meanwhile, in the life of Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The whole life

15 April – 15 May 1874
First Impressionist exhibition
Renoir took an active part in organizing the exhibition and showed a pastel and six paintings, among them "The Dancer" and "La Loge" (The Theater Box). It was at his suggestion that the catalogue carried the title of Monet's painting "Impression, Sunrise," which gave rise to the word "Impressionists."
1876
Second Impressionist exhibition
Hoping to secure an income from portrait commissions, Renoir showed mainly portraits at the second Impressionist exhibition.
1879
Triumph at the Salon of 1879
Presenting "Portrait of Madame Charpentier and Her Children" and the full-length "Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary," Renoir won universal recognition, and with it financial independence.

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