Régates à Argenteuil

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1874

Sailboats line a grassy riverbank in this loosely painted horizontal landscape. Vivid blue water stretches before us to meet a verdant bank along the left third of the horizon, which comes less than halfway up the composition. About a dozen people standing in the grass are painted with a few strokes each of white or dark blue. One sailboat dominates the scene just right of center, and about half a dozen more sailboats are spaced farther back in the landscape beyond it. A flagpole rises along the left edge of the painting. The water and sky are thinly painted, and areas of the tan-colored, textured canvas are visible, especially in the sky.
Artiste
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Datation
1874
Catégorie
Peinture
Technique
Huile sur toile
Dimensions
32,4 × 45,7 cm
Collection
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Licence
Domaine public, CC0

Description de l’image

Sailboats line a grassy riverbank in this loosely painted horizontal landscape. Vivid blue water stretches before us to meet a verdant bank along the left third of the horizon, which comes less than halfway up the composition. About a dozen people standing in the grass are painted with a few strokes each of white or dark blue. One sailboat dominates the scene just right of center, and about half a dozen more sailboats are spaced farther back in the landscape beyond it. A flagpole rises along the left edge of the painting. The water and sky are thinly painted, and areas of the tan-colored, textured canvas are visible, especially in the sky.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir