Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – The Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes
| Year of creation: | 1908–1914 |
| Original size: | 54.6 cm x 65.4 cm |
| Painting style: | Impressionism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
The Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, made between 1908 and 1914. The original measures 54.6 x 65.4 cm, is catalogued as 61.190 and hangs in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Our hand-painted painting The Farm at Les Collettes is worked in oil on canvas, in eight sizes from 70 x 60 to 150 x 130 cm.
Two heavy olive trunks rise through the foreground and divide the view. Behind them, among the trees, stands a pale ochre farmhouse with dark shutters; beside it, at the centre, a small figure in blue. The ground is broken scrub in green, rose and cream, and the sky shows between the leaves in patches of violet-blue.
Les Collettes was Renoir’s own property at Cagnes-sur-Mer, bought in 1907; the old farmhouse stood among the ancient olive trees. This is therefore not a travelling motif but the view from his own garden, painted in the last years of the painter’s life, when he was living on the estate.
Our version is not a print. The trunks are built from dense, swirling strokes, while the foliage is made of small separated touches that let the ground show through in places. A hand-painted canvas keeps that difference in the way the paint sits, which printed paper cannot imitate.
The soft green-and-rose subject settles well in a living room, a bedroom or a study, where it is meant to calm. For a smaller wall 80 x 70 cm is enough; above a larger piece of furniture we recommend 120 x 100 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. Every hand-painted painting The Farm at Les Collettes arrives ready to hang, with the canvas stretched on a wooden frame.
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