Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – View of Bougival
| Year of creation: | 1873 |
| Original size: | 49.5 cm x 57.2 cm |
| Painting style: | Impressionism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | Milwaukee Art Museum |
View of Bougival is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, made in 1873. The original measures 49.5 x 57.2 cm, is catalogued as M2001.161 and hangs in the Milwaukee Art Museum. Our oil painting on canvas View of Bougival is worked by hand in oil on canvas, in eight sizes from 70 x 60 to 150 x 130 cm.
A broad sandy bank opens across the bottom, with a white dog with brown patches lying at the centre and the dark hull of a boat drawn up at the left edge. Behind it, under dark trees, stands a wooden structure whose red-brown steps run down to the water, with pale cloth hanging beside it. At the foot of the steps a woman in a long white dress and dark hat stands with a second figure. To the right the Seine opens out: barges and rowing boats in red, blue and black lie moored along the bank, and beyond the water a low row of pale houses and green trees closes the far side under a light sky.
Bougival, on the Seine west of Paris, was a favourite place for Sunday outings, and Renoir painted it more than once. This view is neither a dance nor a figure scene but a quiet bank with a few boats and a dog in the sun.
Our version is not a print. The sand in the foreground is laid in with broad, soft passes, while the boats, the steps and the figures are set down with sharp short strokes – a few marks for each object. A hand-painted painting keeps that difference in the way the paint sits, which printed paper cannot imitate.
The light sand-and-green subject is easy to live with in a living room, a hallway or a bedroom, where it is meant to settle the space. 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 oil painting on canvas View of Bougival arrives ready to hang, with the canvas stretched on a wooden frame.
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