The Auvers Valley on the Oise River
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · after 1884 · Gouache and watercolor, with touches of scraping, on ivory wove paper
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
The Auvers Valley on the Oise River is a public-domain drawing by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, dated after 1884. Gouache and watercolor, with touches of scraping, on ivory wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“The Auvers Valley on the Oise River” (after 1884) is the kind of picture Renoir built from soft, decorative color, first learned while he painted porcelain.
About the artist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) was a French Impressionist painter of figures, dance halls, and later warm nudes and still lifes. He trained as a porcelain painter, which shows in the soft, decorative color.
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