We all know and love Pierre-Auguste Renoir as a preeminent painter of people, but often overlook his landscapes. This is a mistake for, as Renoir Landscapes: 1865-1883 illustrates, the artist originally developed his superbly innovative color palette in the freedom of the outdoors. Additionally, it was landscape painting that first allowed Renoir to loosen his brushwork and speed up the tempo of his work. A strong argument is here made that, lacking the landscape experience he enjoyed in the first two decades of his career, we'd all be looking at very different Renoirs in years since.
Renoir Landscapes: 1865-1883 was organized jointly by the National Gallery, London, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and contained more than 60 works from public and private collections from the United States, Europe and around the world. A selection of images from the exhibition is hereby provided for your viewing pleasure.
- A Clearing in the Woods, 1865 © The Detroit Institute of Arts; used with permission
- La Grenouillère, 1869© The National Art Museums of Sweden; used with permission
- Le Pont Neuf, 1872© National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Image 2005 Board of Trustees; used with permission
- The Harvesters, 1873© Private collection, Switzerland; used with permission
- Claude Monet painting in his Garden at Argenteuil, about 1873© Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut; used with permission
- Duck Pond, 1873© Private collection; used with permission
- Springtime (in Chatou), also known as Spring at Chatou, about 1875© Private collection; used with permission
- Les Grands Boulevards, 1875© Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; used with permission
- Le Pont de Chatou, 1875© Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts; used with permission
- The Skiff (La Yole), 1875© The National Gallery, London; used with ppermission
- Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (The Rowers' Lunch), 1875© The Art Institute of Chicago. Photo Robert Hashimoto; used with permission
- Garden in the rue Cortot, Montmartre, 1876© Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; used with permission
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