"Renoir, Impressionism and Full-Length Painting"

Nine iconic Renoirs—borrowed from collections in France, the U.K. and the U.S.—are brought together for this first-ever survey devoted to the artist's use of the full-length figurative format. The large vertical canvases on view are among the greatest masterpieces of Impressionism, and they include the Frick's own La Promenade (1875–76), which depicts a bourgeois lady ushering her twin girls along a path in a park. Like the other paintings in the exhibit, La Promenade demonstrates Renoir's use of a treatment previously employed only for royals, to show ordinary people going about their day.