Renoir - La Loge The Theater Box

La Loge The Theater Box was painted in 1874.

Type of the painting - Oil on canvas.

Painting size - 63 x 80 cm.

Renoir at the Theatre sets La Loge in the context of all six of the artist’s canvases of the subject from the early years of the movement. Like the other Impressionists, Renoir made a virtue of depicting the superficial aspect of visual experience, and this attention to surface achieves its perfect expression in the loge paintings, which focus on seeing and being seen. Renoir references the fundamentally voyeuristic inclination underpinning the Impressionist enterprise in La Loge itself by showing the woman’s male companion in the act of using binoculars.

It is a part of the following sets: Concert, Theatre