The Seine at Chatou  1881

[url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20556229]Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons[/url] [br] Renoir renders this radiant landscape of the Seine just west of Paris with carefully differentiated brushwork, from the long, feathery strokes of the waving grasses to small, thick touches for the flowering trees. Renoir wrote to a friend at the time of the painting, “I’m struggling with...