Landscape
Auguste Renoir
1889
Medium
Watercolor on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
8 7/8 × 12 9/16 in. (22.6 × 31.9 cm) Framed: 18 × 24 in. (45.7 × 61 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.691
Tags
Landscapes
About the Artist
Auguste Renoir · 1841–1919
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a founding figure of Impressionism whose luminous depictions of Parisian leisure, sensuous female forms, and sun-dappled landscapes made him one of the most beloved painters in Western art history. Born in Limoges to a working-class family, Renoir began as a porcelain painter before pursuing fine arts, and this early craft experience gave him facility with the...