Alfred Renaudin was a French painter best known for his detailed plein-air landscapes of the Lorraine countryside. Born on June 3, 1866 in La Neuveville-lès-Raon, France, Renaudin began as an apprentice potter before studying drawing and painting at the School of Fine Arts in Nancy. He began to show at the Paris Salon in 1890 and to travel throughout the country and abroad, capturing dramatic natural light and shadow in his naturalistic artworks.
Bringing a strong level of realism and detail to his landscapes, canvases such as Lavandière à Dun-sur-Meuse (1900) demonstrate the artist’s deft handling of surface and texture. His studio was partially destroyed by a bomb during World War II, and with much of his work now gone, he continued to work until his death on November 7, 1944 in Lunéville, France. The city exhibited a major body of Renaudin’s work in 1987.