RENOIR, Pierre-Auguste
(b, 1841, Limoges, d. 1919, Cagnes-sur-Mer)

Landscape

1902
Oil on canvas, 14 x 19 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

In Renoir's late period, when he no longer pursued the expression of lighting effects or concerned himself with thorough drawing, he emerged in full measure as a master of sensuous, baroque colour. In his paintings, the everydayness dear to the Impressionists gave way to the classical genres: landscape, still-life, and the nude.




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