Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne – Renoir Wall Art | Impressionist Winter Canvas

Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne by Pierre-Auguste Renoir gathers a lively winter crowd onto the frozen lakes of the Parisian park, the dark silhouettes of skaters dispersed across pale ice beneath a soft grey sky. The brushwork is brisk and animated, drawing form from movement and atmosphere rather than careful contour. The Bois de Boulogne was a favored leisure ground for Second Empire and early Third Republic Paris, and the cold snaps of the late 1860s drew Renoir and his fellow painters to record its skating fashions in paint. The work is a rare and energetic example of Renoir's winter figure subjects.