Hyacinthe-Eugene Meunier by Renoir in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2008

Artist: Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)

Title: Eugène Murer (Hyacinthe-Eugène Meunier, 1841–1906)

Date: 1877

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 18 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (47 x 39.4 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002

Accession Number: 2003.20.9

Gallery Label:
Hyacinthe-Eugène Meunier, known as Murer, was a celebrated pastry cook, restaurateur, novelist, poet, and avid collector of works by his friends Pissarro, Guillaumin, Sisley, and Renoir. This portrait was painted toward the end of 1877.

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