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Compare the radiating yellow petals with the rounder white blooms, then find where loose flower strokes merge into the patterned cloth.
Renoir described flower painting as a chance to experiment with color more freely than when a sitter expected a portrait. Here a crowded bouquet spreads almost to the canvas edges. Different petal shapes, overlapping greens, and the patterned cloth turn a familiar vase of flowers into a study of varied marks.
Oil on canvas · 54.8 × 65.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Chrysanthemums
- Artist
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)
- Date
- 1881–82
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 54.8 × 65.8 cm (21 5/8 × 25 7/8 in.); Framed: 75.3 × 86.4 × 10.8 cm (29 5/8 × 34 × 4 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.