0 favorites     0 comments    129 visits

See also...


Keywords

art
MetropolitanMuseum
Impressionism
MMA
2018
Met
19thCentury
Renoir
NewYorkCity
Manhattan
NewYork
NY
NYC
French
painting
museum
FujiFinePixS9900W


Authorizations, license

Visible by: Everyone
All rights reserved

129 visits


Detail of By the Seashore by Renoir in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2018

Detail of By the Seashore by Renoir in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2018
Title: By the Seashore

Artist: Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer)

Date: 1883

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 36 1/4 x 28 1/2 in. (92.1 x 72.4 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929

Accession Number: 29.100.125

Renoir likely painted this work in his studio, posing his model in a wicker chair and relying on studies he had made on the Normandy coast to furnish the beach scene behind her. Stylistically, it reflects the impact of Renoir’s trip to Italy in 1881–82, which inspired him to unite the “grandeur and simplicity” he admired in Renaissance art with the luminosity of Impressionism. His new approach, which he called his “dry” manner, is evident in the sitter’s face, with its carefully drawn features and smooth handling of paint. The medley of quick strokes in the background, however, displays the freer technique of Renoir’s earlier years.


Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437430

Comments

Sign-in to write a comment.