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Look between the figures’ faces and hands, then compare the girl’s decorated hat with the lively leaves surrounding it.
A man and a young girl lean against a wooden railing beside a lake. Renoir mixed some colors directly on the canvas, while using different brushes for broad leaves and finer details of faces and clothing. The lively surface comes from varied decisions, not one repeated kind of Impressionist stroke.
Oil on canvas · 47.5 × 56.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Near the Lake
- Artist
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)
- Date
- 1879–80
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 47.5 × 56.4 cm (18 11/16 × 22 3/16 in.); Framed: 65.8 × 74.3 × 8.6 cm (25 7/8 × 29 1/4 × 3 3/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Potter Palmer 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.