Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Snow-covered Landscape
| Year of creation: | c. 1875 |
| Original size: | 51.0 cm x 66.0 cm |
| Painting style: | Impressionism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris |
Snow-covered Landscape is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, made around 1875. The original measures 51.0 x 66.0 cm, is catalogued as RF 1960-21 and hangs in the Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris. Our oil painting on canvas Snow-covered Landscape is painted by hand in oil on canvas, in eight sizes from 80 x 60 to 170 x 130 cm.
The lower half of the canvas is filled by a snow-covered slope made of small flecks of blue, lilac, cream and white. At the left a screen of bare trees and thin trunks rises across the picture; through the branches and beyond them, at the upper right, pale houses with reddish roofs stand under a cold grey sky. A few dark accents mark the bushes breaking through the snow.
Winter subjects are uncommon in Renoir’s work, which is part of what makes this one interesting. Snow is not a white surface for him but the place to show how much colour sits in shadow. There is very little white: the snow is built from blue, violet and rose, and white appears only where the light actually lands.
Our version is not a print. The snow is made of short, separated strokes that do not blend into one another, while the branches are drawn in a single pass over the ground already laid in. A hand-painted canvas keeps that difference in the way the paint sits, which printed paper cannot imitate.
The cool blue-grey subject does well in a bright room – a living room, a bedroom or a hallway, where it should settle the space rather than dominate it. For a smaller wall 90 x 70 cm is enough; above a larger piece of furniture we recommend 130 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 oil painting on canvas Snow-covered Landscape arrives ready to hang, with the canvas stretched on a wooden frame.
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