Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Embroiderers (Les Brodeuses), Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1902, Oil on canvas, These women are embroidering a tapestry, an artisanal practice that was quickly being replaced by the machine in industrializing 19th-century Europe. Renoir disdained modern technology. In his writings from the mid-1880s, he repeatedly condemns the regularizing effects of the machine and its undermining of long held values of craftsmanship., Overall: 39 3/4 x 32 1/16 in. (101 x cm)

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