Sailboats line a grassy riverbank in this loosely painted horizontal landscape. Vivid blue water stretches before us to meet a verdant bank along the left third of the horizon, which comes less than halfway up the composition. About a dozen people standing in the grass are painted with a few strokes each of white or dark blue. One sailboat dominates the scene just right of center, and about half a dozen more sailboats are spaced farther back in the landscape beyond it. A flagpole rises along the left edge of the painting. The water and sky are thinly painted, and areas of the tan-colored,…
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Regatta at Argenteuil

Auguste Renoir (French, 1841 - 1919)

1874

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 32.4 x 45.7 cm (12 3/4 x 18 in.) ; framed: 55.6 x 71.4 x 6.7 cm (21 7/8 x 28 1/8 x 2 5/8 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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