Place de la Trinité, c. 1893 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Place de la Trinité, painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1893, looks across the busy Parisian square in front of the Church of the Holy Trinity, with horse-drawn carriages, carts, and pedestrians crossing a sun-washed plaza framed by a fenced public garden and pale stone façades. The brushwork is loose and broken, built up in quick touches of gray, blue, and warm ochre that capture the bustle of a working city street on an overcast afternoon, in the same rapid, spontaneous manner that defined Renoir's Impressionist street scenes. Renoir returned repeatedly to scenes of modern Parisian life across his career, and this view threads street activity and architecture through the Impressionist sensibility he helped establish.

Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919). Date: c. 1893.

Place de la Trinité, c. 1893 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Impressionist Paris Cityscape Canvas Print.