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Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841 - 1919
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L’Homme au petit Chapeau
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1877
Oil on canvas
11½ x 11 1/4 in / 29.2 x 28.5cm
Signed

Note: This is a portrait of Baron Raoul Barbier, a cavalry officer who became Mayor of Saigon during the Occupation by the French forces. He met Renoir at Chatou in the restaurant of Père Fournaise, and the two were friendly from about 1876 to 1881. Two other portraits of Barbier are recorded by François Daulte, Auguste Renoir, vol. I, 1971, no. 243, and no. 379 (seen from the back in the Déjeuner des Canotiers in the Duncan Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.)

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Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd opened in 1969 and is a family run business dealing in Impressionist & 20th century masters
as well as Modern British & International Post War Art.
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