The Box at the Opera

Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919), one of the artists known as the Impressionists was known for his paintings in gardens, parks, and opera. Renoir paintings depict each stroke done through the expression of his eyes.

Renoir believed in glorifying the women he painted and his landscapes where it possessed a cliché of reality. The Box at opera, is a portrait of a women dressed up and a man with a binocular, a sensational couple watching the opera. Edmond, posed for the man is Renoir's brother, the girl was a model,  Nini Gueule en Raie.

It is a wonderful painting as the artist is keen on the painting female figures in fashionable appearance. The work of art shows the delicate features of the model. The Box at Opera is distinguished for its vivacious beam of colors, focusing on general public in candid compositions. The painting is currently placed in the Courtauld Institute Galleries, University of London. The painting though, did not fetch a lot of buyers and at the end Renoir had to sell the painting for 425 francs as it was his only source for paying off his rent. He had no other resource to buy paints for his next art.

The Box at opera was a master piece which was painted in the year 1874, when Renoir was thirty three years old. It was considered as a simple glance of modern life. Nini, the model was the first among the long series of portrait in Renoir's piece of art. Renoir believed that if a painter can relate himself with nature, she will surprise you with her beauty.