Paintings I love
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)
Landscape on the Coast, near Menton
1883
Oil on canvas 65.7 x 81.3 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
In December 1883 Monet and Renoir traveled along the Mediterranean coast from Marseille to Genoa. The trip was Renoir’s first to the region where he would settle at the end of his life. Smitten by its beauty, he wrote to his patron Paul Berard, “…alas our poor palette can’t match up to it.” Nevertheless, with brilliant color and feathery brushstrokes, this picture sets out to capture the place, inviting the viewer into a windswept grove on bluffs overlooking the sea.
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