La Promenade
Unlike the images of seduction created by his predecessors, Renoir's is a fleeting moment that caught by chance middle-class Parisians immersed in nature, possibly a local park, not set before a studio backdrop. The dappled light filtering through the foliage would become a trademark of Renoir's finest Impressionist works of the 1870s and 1880s. Read more...
La Promenade by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity."
