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La Promenade

A woman and two similarly dressed children pause at the front of a crowded Parisian promenade, where dolls, hats and blurred passersby turn public leisure into a study of looking.

Living Canvas / Visual evidence

La Promenade: Meaning, Symbols and Visual Analysis

Five regions test how gaze, repeated clothing, a doll, the adult figure and the compressed crowd turn a family-like group into a scene of public display.

Date: 1875-1876
Museum: The Frick Collection
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What remains debated

Evidence has limits.

The local file's descriptive title calls the figures a mother and children, while the Frick's official title is La Promenade. The visible evidence supports age difference, coordinated dress and proximity, but not a fully documented family relationship by itself.

Questions about this painting

Meaning without a thin page

What should I look at first in La Promenade?

Begin with the adult figure creates a dark vertical shelter, then compare it with repeated coats make the children a pair and three gazes refuse one shared focal point. The sequence moves from visible structure toward interpretation.

What does La Promenade mean?

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Verify the object record

Titles, dates, media, dimensions, institutional identifiers and retained sources remain separate from interpretation so each fact can be checked independently.

Record completeness

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Primary title: La Promenade
Original title: La Promenade
Alternate titles: Mother and Children (La Promenade)
Creator: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Date: 1875-1876
Movement: Impressionism
Object type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 170.2 × 108.3 cm
Holding institution: The Frick Collection
Current location: The Frick Collection, New York
Accession number: 1914.1.100
Credit line: Henry Clay Frick Bequest
Attribution: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Digital image: 1600 × 2529 px

Record control

Status: verified
Last verified: 2026-08-08
Verified by: SeePaintings editorial verification
Internal ID: renoir-la-promenade

The Frick Collection object record and reproduction were matched to the pilot master by aspect ratio and structural image comparison before publication.

Open museum record

Provenance note

Entered the collection through the Henry Clay Frick Bequest.

Verification note

Title, date, medium, dimensions, accession number and credit line follow the museum's current online object record.

References

01La Promenade · The Frick Collection

Image use and download

Work: public-domain
Digital image: terms-review-required
Checked: 2026-08-08

The underlying artwork is public domain; separate conditions may apply to the museum's digital reproduction.

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Image source Download / IIIF

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Compare evidence, not just images

Set this work beside a related painting to test differences in date, artist, movement, subject, palette and visible evidence.

Open side-by-side comparison

same artist

The Swing

Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1876

Modern leisure, fashion and public looking

Both works use social encounter and broken color to structure modern outdoor life.

Compare this pair

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Follow this painting through the knowledge graph

Continue through artist, movement, subject, emotion, color and visual-analysis methods. Each destination adds independent context instead of repeating the same interpretation.

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Historical significance

Why this work still matters

The painting connects portrait-like attention with the modern public spaces central to Impressionism, while leaving the sitters' exact relationship less certain than its later descriptive title suggests.

Detail coordinates

Look more closely

01Compare the three direct and averted gazes.
02Follow the repeated flowers, hats and pale collars.
03Use the doll to distinguish childhood performance from adult fashion.

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Turn the record into a usable result

Carry the verified object identity into a citation, classroom worksheet or source trail. Reuse means research, teaching and creative reference, not merely downloading an image.