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Portrait of Albert Cahen d’Anvers
1881

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, Limoges 1841 - Cagnes-sur-Mer 1919

Oil on canvas

By the early 1880s, Renoir had achieved some success as a portraitist of the social elite. The subject here is orchestral composer Albert Cahen d’Anvers (1846-1903), a member of a wealthy banking family. Fastidiously dressed with an elegant cigarette holder in his hand, he sits nonchalantly in an 18th century armchair before a vase of dahlias and an exuberant floral wallpaper.