Auguste Renoir - The Bridge at Chatou 1875

The Bridge at Chatou 1875
The Bridge at Chatou
1875 51x64cm oil/canvas
The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown

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From The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown:
Renoir placed his easel on lush pastoral land in Chatou, a village about nine miles west of Paris, yet chose to paint the town’s nondescript buildings rather than the surrounding landscape. The focus of the canvas is the brilliant blue of the river and the contrasting yellow of the sunlit bridge, its reflection blurred by the choppy surface of the suburban waterway.
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