Look first
A Road in Louveciennes
Auguste Renoir · ca. 1870
A Road in Louveciennes by Auguste Renoir: The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973
What to notice
Follow the road as it bends between trees and modest houses; quick, broken strokes keep the small suburban landscape open to changing weather and light.
Discover
Renoir painted A Road in Louveciennes around 1870. The small oil landscape follows a bending road between trees and houses, using broken handling to register an ordinary suburban motif under changing outdoor light.
Source institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rights status: Public Domain / The Met Open Access
Rights status: Public Domain / The Met Open Access
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