Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Chestnut Tree in Blossom
| Year of creation: | 1881 |
| Original size: | 71.0 cm x 89.0 cm |
| Painting style: | Impressionism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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 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.
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.
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.
The bright green-and-rose subject is easy to place in a living room, a bedroom or a dining room, where it is meant to bring light. For a smaller wall 100 x 80 cm is enough; above a larger piece of furniture we recommend 150 x 120 cm. We paint to order, in a different size on request. Before dispatch we send you a photograph of the finished canvas for your approval. Your canvas wall art Chestnut Tree in Blossom arrives ready to hang, with the canvas stretched on a wooden frame.
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