Surrounded by lush, bright foliage, man and a young girl at close range lean against a fence near a lake. The man is smoking, and both wear straw hats.
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Near the Lake

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)

1879–80

Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
47.5 × 56.4 cm (18 11/16 × 22 3/16 in.); Framed: 65.8 × 74.3 × 8.6 cm (25 7/8 × 29 1/4 × 3 3/8 in.)
Culture
France
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line
Potter Palmer Collection
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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