Landscape with a Path between Trees
ca. 1886
Medium
Watercolor with touches of white gouache on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 10 13/16 x 13 13/16 in. (27.4 x 35.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002
Accession Number
2003.20.11
Tags
Art Historical Context
Auguste Renoir’s “Landscape with a Path between Trees,” created around 1886, captures the quiet poetry of a wooded path in delicate watercolor washes accented with touches of white gouache. The sheet’s modest scale—roughly 10 by 14 inches—invites intimate viewing, allowing the translucent layers of color to suggest dappled sunlight filtering through foliage. Renoir, a leading figure of the Impressionist movement, often turned to such natural subjects to explore the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere. By the mid-1880s Renoir was moving beyond the rapid brushwork of his earlier Impression...
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...