The Seine at Argenteuil, 1888 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir Wall Art | Impressionist River Canvas Print

Painted in 1888, The Seine at Argenteuil looks across the broad river toward the leafy western bank where Renoir and his Impressionist circle had spent the previous decade refining their plein-air practice. The composition unfolds in cool jade, dusty lavender, and pale ivory tones, animated by the firmer, more controlled brushwork of Renoir's late-1880s manner following his Italian tour. By this point Argenteuil had become both a beloved subject and a kind of memorial to the founding moment of Impressionism, since the Monet household had departed years earlier. The work stands as a luminous testament to a mature painter returning to the river that had made his name.