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Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971)  1914

by Auguste Renoir

In July 1914, just prior to the outbreak of World War I, the famous German actress Tilla Durieux traveled to Paris with her husband, the art dealer Paul Cassirer, to pose for Renoir. The classicizing, pyramidal format of this composition lends a certain grandeur to the sitter, attired in the costume that the couturier Poiret designed for her role as Eliza Doolittle in Geor...
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Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art