A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant, 1875 - Large Art Prints Frame:Rolled He picked his subjects from

He picked his subjects from everyday life showing the figures in ordinary activities

The olive and laurel refer to the mystery of the Incarnation

bedecked in all finery is placed against a monochromatic background

The Moroccans was significantly influenced by Picasso's Cubism

All this means these are the sort of big

A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant, 1875 - Large Art Prints Frame:Rolled He picked his subjects fromRenoir portrays a waitress who worked at one of several Parisian restaurants established by a butcher named Duval. Renoir imparted to his comely model an unaffected grace. As he once said, "I like painting best when it looks eternal without boasting about it: an everyday eternity, revealed on the street corner: a servant girl pausing a moment as she scours a saucepan, and becoming a Juno on Olympus."