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The Road to Versailles at Louveciennes (Route de Versailles à Louveciennes), c. 1870 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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The Road to Versailles at Louveciennes, painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in c. 1870, captures a tree-lined country road near the village of Louveciennes, west of Paris, where tall poplars arch over a sandy track and small figures pass beneath a soft, overcast sky with a horse-drawn cart in the distance. Painted early in Renoir's career, the work reflects the loose, light-filled brushwork he was developing alongside Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro, who painted these same roads and riverbanks around Louveciennes in the early 1870s. The canvas, also known as "A Road in Louveciennes," is held today in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919). Date: c. 1870.
The Road to Versailles at Louveciennes, c. 1870 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Impressionist Landscape Canvas Print.