Madame Charpentier with Her Children by Pierre Renoir

In this painting, Renoir presents Madame Charpentier wearing an elegant black Worth gown.

She dressed in black, presents an authoritarian figure as she sits on the patterned sofa looking over her two children.

Her children sit on her right; the younger child, Paul, dressed as a girl perches on the loveseat and looks at his older sister, Georgette, who rests one arm on the loveseat while sitting astride a large recumbent dog.

Madame Georges Charpentier with Her Children

The background reflects ‘the love of the period for Japanese art’, for behind the sitters is a reddish-rust and olive-brown Oriental screen whose surface is punctuated by peacocks and other exotic birds.
Madame Charpentier with Her Children by Renoir