Paintings I love
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)
The Seine at Chatou
1881
Oil on canvas 73.3 x 92.4 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Renoir renders this radiant landscape of the Seine just west of Paris with carefully differentiated brushwork, from the long, feathery strokes of the waving grasses to small, thick touches for the flowering trees. Renoir wrote to a friend at the time of the painting, “I’m struggling with trees in flower, with women and children, and I don’t want to look at anything else.”
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