In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
A favorite locale of artists, the peninsula of Saint-Jean was renowned for its groves of spectacular olive trees. Here a group of holidaymakers and a farmer across the bay add to the view's picturesque quality. The soft, abbreviated brushstrokes lend the landscape its suffusive harmony and are consistent with Renoir's technique in the 1890s. During these years, Renoir increasingly came to realize the limitations of painting en plein air (outdoors), so while he started the canvas on the spot, he likely completed it in the studio—a practice advocated by Camille Corot, whom he admired.
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Auguste Renoir — The Mussel Harvest
Paul Cézanne — Autumn Landscape (Paysage d'automne)
Alfred Sisley — Saint Mammès–Loing Canal (Saint Mammès–Canal
John Constable — Landscape with Cottages
Ernest Lawson — Landscape with Gnarled Trees
Charles Harold Davis (American, 1856–1933) — Spring on the H
Albert Pinkham Ryder — The River
Paul Cézanne — Hunting Cabin in Provence (Cabane de chasse e
Henri-Joseph Harpignies — Landscape
Théodore Rousseau — Countryside in Picardy
Charles-François Daubigny — Washerwomen at the Oise River ne
Adolphe Monticelli (French, 1824–1886) — Autumn
