Tall grasses lead back to a body of water and then perhaps a town in this loosely painted, horizontal landscape. Brushstrokes are visible throughout, and the color palette is saturated with dark, jewel-toned blue and green, a few touches of citrine yellow, and rosy pinks. Tall, straight strokes suggest marshy grasses along the front two-thirds of the painting, and shorter flicks in slightly cooler greens to the left could be bushes. The water is streaked with pale pink across sapphire blue. Strokes beyond that suggest white-walled buildings with muted red roofs in a town tucked between trees…
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Landscape at Vétheuil

Auguste Renoir (French, 1841 - 1919)

c. 1890

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 11.5 x 16.5 cm (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.) ; framed: 27.9 x 31.8 x 4.1 cm (11 x 12 1/2 x 1 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
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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