Bouquet of Chrysanthemums  1881

[url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19905438]Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons[/url] [br] Renoir felt that he had greater freedom to experiment in still lifes than in figure paintings. "When I paint flowers, I feel free to try out tones and values and worry less about destroying the canvas," he told the writer Georges Rivière. "I would not do this with a figure painting since...