Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Mixed Flowers in an Earthenware Pot
| Year of creation: | c. 1869 |
| Original size: | 64.8 cm x 54.3 cm |
| Painting style: | Impressionism |
| Original technique: | Oil on paperboard mounted on canvas |
| Located: | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Mixed Flowers in an Earthenware Pot is a work by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, made around 1869. The original measures 64.8 x 54.3 cm, is catalogued as 48.592 and hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Our canvas wall art Mixed Flowers is painted by hand in oil on canvas, in eight sizes from 60 x 70 to 120 x 150 cm.
A tall, loosely built bouquet stands at the centre in a blue-and-white earthenware pot. Two yellow sunflowers ride at the top and left; below them are white and cream chrysanthemums and dahlias, pale violet-blue blooms, and a dense scatter of red, orange and pink zinnias low in the mass. The ground is deep brown-black at the left and a cooler grey-violet at the right, so the flowers read as light against dark. Three pears lie on the grey-blue cloth in front.
The museum’s own record supplies the most interesting fact: this is Renoir’s closest collaboration with Monet. The two painted the same still life sitting side by side before the arrangement, and Monet’s version is now in the J. Paul Getty Museum. The original is not on canvas but on paperboard mounted on canvas.
Our version is not a print. The blooms are set down in dense, short loads of paint that stay separately visible, while the dark ground is laid broad and thin. A hand-painted painting keeps that difference in the way the paint sits, which printed paper cannot imitate.
The dark ground and pale flowers carry strongly in a dining room, a living room or a hallway, including on a darker wall. For a smaller wall 75 x 90 cm is enough; above a larger piece of furniture we recommend 100 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 Mixed Flowers arrives ready to hang, with the canvas stretched on a wooden frame.
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