{"id":83525,"date":"2021-09-02T18:02:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svetslik.si\/uncategorized\/on-the-banks-of-the-seine-at-rueil\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T09:13:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T07:13:28","slug":"on-the-banks-of-the-seine-at-rueil","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/svetslik.si\/en\/pierre-a-renoir\/on-the-banks-of-the-seine-at-rueil\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierre-Auguste Renoir \u2013 On the Banks of the Seine at Rueil"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the Banks of the Seine at Rueil \u2013 one of the few Renoir painted on wood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n<\/table>\n

On the Banks of the Seine at Rueil is a work by Renoir from 1879, painted on a wooden support. The original measures 65.8 cm x 37.3 cm and is held by the Wallraf-Richartz Museum and the Corboud Foundation in Cologne. Our oil painting On the Banks of the Seine at Rueil is painted by hand in oils on canvas, in eight markedly elongated sizes from 66 x 37 to 200 x 120 cm, among them the size of the original, 66 x 37 cm.<\/p>\n

Yellow under the flowers, white under the sky<\/h3>\n

What is recorded is the method, not only the scene. Before filling the support with short strokes running in different directions, the painter partly covered it with opaque colours: yellow where the flowers and growth stand, white where the sky is. Those grounds are still visible through the later strokes, so the growth glows from underneath and the sky stays light even where the stroke is thin.<\/p>\n

Why hand-painted, not a print<\/h3>\n

Our version is not a print. It is precisely this construction \u2013 a light ground, short strokes over it in several directions, and a visible gap between them \u2013 that print closes up: the screen fills the gaps, and the light that should come from beneath the colour disappears. A hand-painted version repeats the method in layers, so the growth keeps a warmth the upper colour does not give on its own.<\/p>\n

In the room<\/h3>\n

The canvas is markedly elongated \u2013 almost twice as wide as it is high \u2013 and that is exactly its use: it sits above a sofa, above a bed, above a long chest of drawers, or in a strip of wall between windows and doors where an ordinary format will not go. For a strip like that we recommend 130 x 75 cm, above a longer sofa 180 x 100 cm, and for a smaller room 90 x 50 cm. Because of its shape it works better alone than in a group of pictures.<\/p>\n

What you receive<\/h3>\n

We paint the canvas to order, by hand and for you alone, so every copy is made on its own; the canvas is usually painted and dried within three to four weeks. If you prefer, we will paint it in a size that is not on the list. Before despatch we send you a photograph of the finished canvas for your approval, and only then does the painting go out. On the Banks of the Seine at Rueil arrives stretched on a wooden frame and ready to hang, wrapped in protective film and in rigid packaging, with no further stretching or finishing needed.<\/p>\n

\nYear of creation:<\/td>\n\n1879<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nOriginal size:<\/td>\n\n65.8 cm x 37.3 cm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nPainting style:<\/td>\n\nImpressionism<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nOriginal technique:<\/td>\n\nOil on wood<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nLocated:<\/td>\n\nWallraf-Richartz Museum and Corboud Foundation, Cologne, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n