In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Renoir painted this canvas during the summer of 1886 in Brittany, and the conventional subject belies its importance as a crucial departure from the seeming spontaneity of impressionism. At this time, Renoir sought to fuse line and color seamlessly. Here, the figures are treated crisply and in considerable detail; strikingly, much of the foliage and fruit are outlined precisely in the underlying drawing and reinforced by additional contours on the finished layer. The palette, however, is consistent with Renoir's previous work, especially the juxtapositions between orange-reds and blue-greens.
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Camille Pissarro — A Corner of The Garden at Les Mathurins, 
Robert Delaunay — Summer
Édouard Manet — A Garden Nook at Bellevue
Camille Pissarro — Peasant House at Éragny
August Macke — Sonniger Garten
Camille Pissarro — Woman and Child at the Well
Johannes Bosboom — Binnenplaats van het Heilige Geesthofje a
Alfred Sisley — Cour de ferme à Saint-Mammès
Gustave Caillebotte — Dahlias, Garden at Petit Gennevilliers
Auguste Renoir — Picking Flowers
Claude Monet — Landscape: The Parc Monceau
Paul-Albert Besnard — Une prairie dans le parc de Calais
