Garden Scene in Brittany, 1886 (Scène de Jardin en Bretagne) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Garden Scene in Brittany (Scène de Jardin en Bretagne), painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1886 shows a young woman seated on a white garden bench beside a small child, sewing beneath a leafy tree, while a second woman in a gray jacket and rose-colored skirt crosses the sunlit path carrying a basket toward a bed of flowers. Behind them stands a stone farmhouse with a steep, red thatched roof, its walls glimpsed through dense greenery, a scene Renoir painted during a summer stay on the Brittany coast. The tighter, more linear brushwork and clearly modeled figures reflect Renoir’s “Ingres period” of the mid-1880s, when he pulled back from loose Impressionist technique toward firmer draftsmanship and form.

Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919). Date: 1886.

Garden Scene in Brittany, 1886 (Scène de Jardin en Bretagne) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. French Garden Genre Wall Art Canvas Print.