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Sailboats at Argenteuil, 1874 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Sailboats at Argenteuil, painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1874, captures the busy boat basin at Argenteuil, where a large white sail rises beside a wooden footbridge as a boatman steadies a dinghy at its mooring and other yachts drift across the pale, silvery water. The composition unfolds in cool grays, warm ivories, and soft ochre tones, animated by the rapid, broken brushwork that defined the new Impressionist movement in the very year of its first group exhibition. Renoir painted this scene alongside Claude Monet, who worked side by side with him at this same stretch of the Seine, capturing an almost identical view in his own canvas.
Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919). Date: 1874.
Sailboats at Argenteuil, 1874 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Regatta Impressionist Wall Art Canvas Print.