''Gabrielle with Open Blouse'' (French: ''Gabrielle avec la chemise ouverte'') is an oil on canvas painting by French

impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...

artist

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; ; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French people, French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionism, Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially femininity, fe ...

representing his late work period (1892–1919). It is in the collection of the

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art ( Persian: موزه هنرهای معاصر تهران), also known as TMoCA, is among the largest art museums in Tehran and Iran. It has collections of more than 3,000 items that include 19th and 20th century ...

, but is not on public view because of the model's open blouse. Gabrielle was Gabrielle Renard, a cousin of Renoir's wife Aline Charigot. She became the family's nanny in 1894 and later modelled many times for Renoir before becoming his carer. Only after his death in 1919 did she marry and move to live in America.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gabrielle with Open Blouse Portraits by Pierre-Auguste Renoir Portraits of women 1907 paintings 20th-century portraits Paintings in the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

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