Near the Lake
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1879–80 · Oil on canvas
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Near the Lake is a public-domain painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, dated 1879–80. Oil on canvas. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Near the Lake” (1879–80) 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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