The Mussel Harvest
Auguste Renoir · 1879 · oil on canvas
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About this picture
The Mussel Harvest is a public-domain painting by Auguste Renoir, dated 1879. Oil on canvas. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“The Mussel Harvest” (1879) 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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