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Lush treetops give way to a body of water and a hill in this loosely painted horizontal landscape. The trees across the bottom edge of the canvas are painted with visible or blended strokes in shades of spring, pine, and forest green, aquamarine, and midnight blue. The body of water is skimmed with pale peach, yellow, and blue before the hill rises to nearly touch the top edge of the painting. The vegetation on the hill is painted in shades of celery and olive green, navy and cobalt blue, and a few touches of rust red. Strokes of ivory white suggest houses clustered near the shoreline. The…
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View of Monte Carlo from Cap Martin

painter Auguste Renoir (French, 1841 - 1919)

c. 1884

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 66.2 × 81.6 cm (26 1/16 × 32 1/8 in.) ; framed: 90.49 × 106.68 × 9.21 cm (35 5/8 × 42 × 3 5/8 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Edward C. and Mary Walker Collection, 1937)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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