In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Idealized visions of peasants at rest were very popular in the exhibitions of the Paris Salon toward the end of the 19th century. But while naturalist artists such as Jules Breton and Léon Lhermitte addressed the correlation between toil and weary rest, here Renoir focuses on the idylls of rural life and on the painting's formal qualities. Richly colored, with a play of high-key warm and cool hues, the canvas is thickly worked and unified by long sequences of ribbon-like brushstrokes that suggest the forms of the figures and the lay of the ground.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919) — The Apple Seller
Auguste Renoir — In the Meadow
Camille Pissarro — Two Young Peasant Women
Camille Pissarro — Young Peasant Girls Resting in the Fields
Auguste Renoir — Figures on the Beach
Edgar Degas — Ukrainian Dancers
Auguste Renoir — Young Girl Bathing
Paul Cézanne — Au bord de l'étang (The Pond)
Henri Matisse — Two Women Reclining (Deux femmes étendues)
Edgar Degas — Women Ironing
Paul Cézanne — Five Bathers (Cinq baigneuses)
Claude Monet — In the Woods at Giverny: Blanche Hoschedé at 
