''Mother Anthony's Tavern'' (french: Le cabaret de la Mère Antony à Bourron-Marlotte), also known as ''At the Inn of Mother Anthony'', is an 1866 oil-on-canvas painting made by French artist

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "R ...

during his Fontainebleau period. It is one of Renoir's first major paintings, having completed it at the age of 25. The work is currently in the collection of the

Nationalmuseum Nationalmuseum (or National Museum of Fine Arts) is the national gallery of Sweden, located on the peninsula Blasieholmen in central Stockholm. The museum's operations stretches far beyond the borders of Blasieholmen, the nationalmuseum manag ...

in Stockholm.

Description

Although there are various competing interpretations of the figures depicted in the painting, it is thought that the girl clearing plates in the front left of the painting is Nana; painter and architect

Jules Le Coeur Jules is the French form of the Latin "Julius" (e.g. Jules César, the French name for Julius Caesar). It is the given name of: People with the name *Jules Aarons (1921–2008), American space physicist and photographer *Jules Abadie (1876–195 ...

(1832-1882) appears as the bearded man standing up preparing to roll a cigarette, the clean-shaven man sitting down facing the viewer is thought to be Dutch landscape artist "Bos", a friend of Le Coeur; artist

Alfred Sisley Alfred Sisley (; ; 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedicatio ...

(1839–1899) appears as the bearded man seated with a hat next to Toto, a three-legged poodle with a wooden leg; in the far right background we see the back of the proprietor, Madame Anthony, wearing a headscarf.

Influences

The painting ''

After Dinner at Ornans ''After Dinner at Ornans'' (French - ''L'Après-dînée à Ornans'') is a 195 by 257 cm painting by Gustave Courbet, painted in winter 1848–1849 in Ornans. It is now in the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille. Decades later, ''Mother Anthony's Tave ...

'' (1848–1849) by

Gustave Courbet Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet ( , , ; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and t ...

informs this work, showing the influence of Courbet on the early Renoir.Adams, Steven (1994).
The Barbizon School & the Origins of Impressionism
'. Phaidon Press. pp. 202-209. . .

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