View of La Seyne, Provence, 1890 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

View of La Seyne, Provence, painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1890, looks out over a sun-bleached Provençal village glimpsed through a screen of silvery olive trees, its red-tiled roofs and church steeple nestled against distant blue hills. Painted during Renoir's travels along the Mediterranean coast, the landscape favors soft, hazy color and gentle atmosphere over sharp detail, the pale sky and green fields dissolving into one another. It reflects Renoir's growing attraction to the light and landscape of the south of France in his later career.

Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919). Date: 1890.

View of La Seyne, Provence, 1890 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Impressionist Coastal Landscape Canvas Print.