Auguste Renoir - Tama the japanese dog 1876

Tama the japanese dog 1876
Tama the japanese dog
1876 38x46cm oil/canvas
Sterling and Francine Clark Art

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From Sterling and Francine Clark Art:
Renoir painted this image of a Japanese spaniel for his friend Henri Cernuschi, a banker and collector of Asian art. The breed, a favorite of the Japanese imperial family, was considered fashionably exotic when Cernuschi brought the dog to France in 1873. The pet’s black-and-white fur stands out against the colored brushstrokes of the background, which partly obscure an inscription of its name, Tama, faintly visible in the painting’s top left corner.
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