Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Chestnut Tree in Blossom

Chestnut Tree in Blossom – a crown strewn with pink clusters

Chestnut Tree in Blossom is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, made in 1881. The original measures 71.0 x 89.0 cm, is catalogued as A I 975 and hangs in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Our canvas wall art Chestnut Tree in Blossom is painted by hand in oil on canvas, in eight sizes from 80 x 65 to 170 x 140 cm.

The subject is simple and domestic: a tree in flower and the people who have come into its shade. That plainness is exactly what makes the picture easy to live with in any room – nothing is happening, there is only spring.

A dense weave of green over half the canvas

The upper left half of the canvas is filled by a chestnut in full flower: the crown is a dense weave of green flecked with rose and cream blossom, the trunk dark beneath it. To the right the ground opens out – a pale path curves away, the water lies flat and silver, and a low line of trees closes the far bank under a high sky worked in short blue and white strokes. Small figures stand under the tree, one in a straw hat and one seated in white, and two more pale figures walk at the right.

Why hand-painted, not a print

Our version is not a print. The blossom in the crown is a run of short, separated touches of rose and cream over the green, while the water and the sky are laid in with broader, quieter passes. A hand-painted painting keeps that difference in the way the paint sits, which printed paper cannot imitate.

In the room

The subject is bright, green and pink and brings light into a room, so it repays hanging in a living room, a bedroom or a dining room. Where the wall is smaller choose 100 x 80 cm; where it is larger, 150 x 120 cm. On a tall wall it carries 170 x 140 cm, with 160 x 130 cm as the step before. Under 80 x 65 cm the pink clusters merge into the green and the chestnut stops being in blossom.

What you receive

We paint the canvas to order, by hand and for you alone, so every copy is made on its own; the canvas is usually painted and dried within three to four weeks. If you prefer, we will paint it in a size that is not on the list. Before despatch we send you a photograph of the finished canvas for your approval, and only then does the painting go out. Chestnut Tree in Blossom arrives stretched on a wooden frame and ready to hang, wrapped in protective film and in rigid packaging, with no further stretching or finishing needed.

• Subject: chestnut tree in blossom with pink clusters, Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• Technique: hand-painted oil painting on canvas, stretched on a wooden frame
• Sizes: 8 sizes, from 80 x 65 cm to 170 x 140 cm, another size on request
• Detail worth knowing: the clusters are not painted as flowers but as light points in the green – the blossom comes out of a difference in brightness

See also:

• Mont Sainte-Victoire
• Woman with a Parasol in a Garden
• Luncheon of the Boating Party