Description
Above everything else, Renoir is supreme in the history of art as a painter of the female nude. Some critics reproached him, not for prurience but rather for a certain “unseriousness” that led him to spend so much time painting nudes. Always he had the same answer, perhaps best summed up in some remarks he made to Vollard when they were talking about Boucher.
“I have been told many times that I ought not to like Boucher, because he is ‘only a decorator.’ As if being a decorator made any difference! Why, Boucher is one of the painters who best understood the female body.
Bibliography
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