Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1879 - Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg) - fine art print

General description as provided by Art Institute Chicago website (© - Art Institute Chicago - Art Institute Chicago)

The two little circus girls in this painting are Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg, who performed as acrobats in the famed Cirque Fernando in Paris. Although they were depicted in the center of a circus ring, the sisters actually posed in costume in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s studio, enabling him to paint them in daylight. Here he portrayed them just as they have finished their act and are taking their bows. One sister turns to the crowd, acknowledging its approval, while the other faces the viewer with an armful of oranges, a rare treat that the audience has tossed in tribute. Although Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando reflects the artist’s enchantment with the innocence of childhood—he has enveloped the girls in a virtual halo of pinks, oranges, yellows, and whites—the partially visible, darkly clothed (mainly male) spectators allude to the less wholesome, nocturnal demimonde of the nineteenth-century circus in which these two young performers grew up. The famed Chicago collector Mrs. Potter Palmer purchased Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando in 1892 and was so enamored of the picture that she kept it with her at all times, even on her travels abroad.

Summary of the art print "Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg)"

This over 140 year-old masterpiece was made by the male French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1879. The original was painted with the size: 131,2 × 99,2 cm (51 ½ × 39 1/16 in) and was crafted with the technique of oil on canvas. "Inscribed at lower left: Renoir" was the masterpiece's inscription. The artwork can be viewed in in the art collection of Art Institute Chicago, which is one of the world’s great art museums, housing a collection that spans centuries and the globe. The modern art public domain artwork is provided with courtesy of Art Institute Chicago. Creditline of the artwork: Potter Palmer Collection. On top of that, alignment is in portrait format and has a side ratio of 3 : 4, which means that the length is 25% shorter than the width. Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a illustrator, painter, sculptor, whose artistic style can be classified as Impressionism. The French painter lived for a total of 78 years - born in 1841 in Limoges, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France and deceased in 1919 in Cagnes-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France.

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