''Woman Playing a Guitar'' (French – ''Femme jouant de la guitare'', ''Joueuse de guitare'' ou ''La Guitariste'') is an 1897 painting by

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 ...

representing his late work period (1892–1919). It is now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, which bought it in 1901. Renoir painted several paintings of guitar-players and borrowing classical motifs – here, he is influenced by

Camille Corot Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ( , , ; July 16, 1796 – February 22, 1875), or simply Camille Corot, is a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast o ...

Titian Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italians, Italian (Republic of Venice, Venetian) painter of the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school (art), ...

and

Rubens Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque traditio ...

. The work was one of the first paintings acquired by Paul Durand-Ruel.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Woman Playing a Guitar Paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1897 paintings Musical instruments in art Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon

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