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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.
- See more at: http://www.clarkart.edu/Collection/777#sthash.T0sm9iJQ.dpuf