Renoir’s House at Essoyes, 1906 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Renoir’s House at Essoyes, painted in 1906, looks down a garden path toward the family’s country house in Champagne, its steep-roofed tower rising against a lavender evening sky as a figure in a pale dress crosses the foreground. Soft greens and warm ochres build the surrounding trees and hedges in Renoir’s loose, atmospheric late manner. Essoyes, his wife Aline’s hometown, became an anchor of Renoir’s later life and the setting for many of his most personal landscapes.

Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919). Date: 1906.

Renoir’s House at Essoyes, 1906. Impressionist Landscape Canvas Print.