Une route à Louveciennes (c.1870)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919)

Une route à Louveciennes (A Road in Louveciennes)
c.1870
Oil on canvas, 38.1 x 46.4 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

This picture, which is in effect drawn directly with paint, was almost certainly executed out-of-doors about 1870. The site is in the village of Louveciennes, west of Paris, where Camille Pissarro lived and worked in 186970 and was inspired to paint the same motif, but from a different vantage point (National GalleryLondon). At the time, Renoir was staying nearby with his parents, who had retired to Voisins. (MET)

See also:

• Louveciennes (France)