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art history, Artists, France

Girl with a Watering Can, 1876 by Pierre Auguste Renoir.

Renoir painted this young girl to attract people and some portrait business. Portraiture was the 19th century artist’s bread and butter.

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Pierre August Renoir portraits Portraiture Renoir The National Gallery of Art
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