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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The Apple Seller

c. 1890
oil on fabric
65.8 × 54.5 cm (25.9 × 21.5 in)

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Using repetitive, soft, light-of-touch brushstrokes to form patches of color, Renoir creates a sense of dappled light that reflects on the ground and caresses the figures, giving the painting an ethereal, dreamlike quality.

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