the theatre box auguste renoirShown at the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874, The Theatre Box is one of the most emblematic works of Auguste Renoir's career. For this painting, the artist had his brother Edmond pose alongside a young Montmartre model nicknamed Nini "Gueule de Raie." The subject of the theatre box was particularly prized by painters of Parisian modernity, fascinated by the social rituals of the bourgeoisie under the Third Republic; Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt