A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant, 1875 - Large Art Prints Frame:Rolled while mixing in his abstract

while mixing in his abstract style

The overall blue-green tone of the background serves as a foil to the orange-red of the artist’s hair and beard

He picked his subjects from everyday life showing the figures in ordinary activities

All this means these are the sort of big

but to Rockwell whose forte was portraiture

A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant, 1875 - Large Art Prints Frame:Rolled while mixing in his abstractRenoir portrays a waitress who worked at one of several Parisian restaurants established by a butcher named Duval. Renoir imparted to his comely model an unaffected grace. As he once said, "I like painting best when it looks eternal without boasting about it: an everyday eternity, revealed on the street corner: a servant girl pausing a moment as she scours a saucepan, and becoming a Juno on Olympus."