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Tilla Durieux (1880-1971)

Tilla Durieux (1880-1971)






Date : 1914

Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Bequest of Stephen C. Clark (1960)
Impressionism
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Auguste Renoir - Alfred Sisley
Nineteenth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture
First Floor
Item 19 on 23
French Painting
Painting

Area related
Paris (France)

Description   

Tilla Durieux, the famous German actress, is depicted here in a costume by Poiret that she wore in Pygmalion. In July 1914, just prior to the outbreak of World War I, she and her husband, the art dealer Paul Cassirer, travelled to Paris in order to pose for Renoir for two weeks.
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