Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – In the Summer
| Year of creation: | 1868 |
| Original size: | 85.0 cm x 59.0 cm |
| Painting style: | Realism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
In the Summer is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir from 1868. The original measures 85.0 x 59.0 cm, is recorded under inventory number A I 1014 and belongs to the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Our hand-painted painting In the Summer is made in oil on canvas, in eight sizes from 58 x 80 to 110 x 160 cm.
A young woman sits on a cane chair with her hands folded in her lap. Her long dark hair falls over her shoulders, a white chemise has slipped from her left shoulder, and a red-and-white striped skirt lies across her knees. Behind her is a wall of loose green foliage. Her gaze passes by us; the work is built on the contrast between warm flesh, white linen and dense green.
Our version is not a print. In this subject the difference is easy to see: the white chemise and the dark hair live on the thickness of the paint — the hair is set down in long, flowing strokes, the linen in short, dense ones. The paint keeps the track of the bristles, which printed paper cannot imitate, so an oil painting on canvas reads differently under changing light than a flat printed surface does.
The quiet portrait, in its green and red range, works well in a bedroom, a hallway, or an office, where a single figure holds the wall without restlessness. For a smaller wall 70 x 100 cm is enough; above a larger piece of furniture we recommend 90 x 130 cm.
We paint to order, and in other sizes on request. Before despatch we send you a photograph of the finished canvas for your approval. Every hand-painted painting In the Summer arrives ready to hang, stretched on a wooden frame.
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