Pope Francis

Strong in the Face of Tribulation: His Words During the Coronavirus Pandemic

April 27, 2020

“Let us pray today for artists, who have this very great capacity for creativity, and through beauty show to us the path to follow. May the Lord give all of us the grace of creativity in this moment.”

Two Young Girls at the Piano1892

Auguste Renoir

In late 1891 or early 1892 Renoir was invited by the French government to execute a painting for a new museum in Paris, the Musée du Luxembourg, which was to be devoted to the work of living artists. He chose as his subject two girls at the piano. Aware of the intense scrutiny to which his submission would be subjected, Renoir lavished extraordinary care on this project, developing and refining the composition in a series of five canvases. The Lehman painting and the nearly identical version formerly in the collection of Renoir’s fellow Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte have long been regarded as the most accomplished variants of this intimate and engaging scene of bourgeois domestic life.

Obtained from https://www.ccvichapel.org/post/strong-in-the-face-of-tribulation

On the header, “Two Young Girls at the Piano” painted by Auguste Renoir (1892).