This horizontal landscape is painted with broad, visible strokes in shades of laurel, fern, and pine green, dark yellow, and ash brown. A winding dirt path leads from the bottom center of the composition toward the horizon, which comes just over halfway up this painting. Thick, loosely painted green foliage dominates the left half of the painting, and a tall, slender tree trunk is near the right edge, partially cut off by the frame. At the center, farther down the path, a small person is painted with a few swipes of coffee brown. Patches of lighter green and yellow suggest sun filtering…
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Landscape between Storms

Auguste Renoir (French, 1841 - 1919)

1874/1875

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 24.4 x 32.6 cm (9 5/8 x 12 13/16 in.) ; framed: 45.1 x 52.7 x 6.7 cm (17 3/4 x 20 3/4 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
Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed

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