With a down-turned head, young Claude appears in a moment of tentative immobility. His face is marked by shifting bands of light, suggesting he is either in a shaded room or outside under a tree or other foliage. The child's inquisitive stare threatens to give way at any moment to the child's developing question. Claude Renoir was born in 1901 when Renoir was 60 years of age. Michel Ferloni and Dominique Spies state, 'It must have been a great joy for the nearly helpless Renoir to follow the smile or the games of this marvelous little being with chubby cheeks, still free as the air and bouncing with life, who was his son' (Ferloni, 56). One of the greatest masters of French Impressionism, Pierre-Auguste Renoir created slightly over fifty original etchings or lithographs during his life. The themes of Renoir's original prints are very much akin to those of his paintings; scenes of people he admired, children, bathers, nudes -- all examined in the ever-changing light of the moment. 'Claude Renoir, le tete baissee [from 'Douze lithographies originales de Pierre-Auguste Renoir']' is from an edition 1,000; this one of 950 on wove paper with the stamp signature (there were also 50 impressions printed on Japan paper). Published by Ambrose Vollard, Paris in the portfolio ' L' Album de Douze lithographies originales de Pierre- Auguste Renoir', 1919 Literature/catalogue raisonne: D39II; S39II.