Renoir Dog Plush

$24.95 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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This adorable friend is the perfect art gift for kids. This lovable plush pup comes from a charming family portrait painted in 1878 by the great Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919). Pictured with the beloved family dog is Marguérite-Louise Lemonnier—the wife of the well-connected publisher Georges Charpentier—and her children, Georgette-Berthe and Paul-Émile-Charles, in the Japanese-style sitting room of her Parisian townhouse. As the French novelist Marcel Proust observed, Renoir gave expression to "the…