Claude Renoir in Clown Costume  1909

[url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3793475]Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons[/url] [br] Only rarely did Renoir ask his children to pose in costume for portraits that endeavoured to be more ambitious than those where he painted them almost without their knowing. This portrait therefore required several sittings. Young Claude, then aged around eight, did not appreciate having...