Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1879 - Environs of Berneval - fine art print

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Although titled Environs of Pourville in the records of the dealer Durand-Ruel as early as 1891, this canvas does not depict the landscape around Pourville, the coastal village to the southwest of Dieppe, where Monet painted in 1882. Rather, it seems to represent the same stretch of coastal landscape that appears in three other paintings of 1879 and 1880, The Mussel Harvest (NGA, Washington DC), View of the Seacoast near Wargemont in Normandy (Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC), and The Wargemont Road (private collection). An entry in Durand-Ruel's stock book identifies the first of these canvases as a view of Bemeval. All of these canvases, it seems, were painted during the spells that Renoir spent in 1879 and 1880 at the Chateau de Wargemont, the estate of his friend and patron Paul Berard, situated inland from Berneval on the Channel coast to the northeast of Dieppe. Although the date on Environs of Berneval has until recently been read as "78," close examination suggests that it is "79," and thus that the picture dates from Renoir's first recorded stay with Berard. Comparison with the other canvases indicates that in Environs of Berneval the sea is located behind us and to our left, as we look up the narrow valley toward the hills beyond. This picture, and the other landscapes that Renoir executed during his stays with Berard at Wargemont, mark the beginning of his move away from the explicitly contemporary scenarios of the environs of Paris to the seemingly more timeless, unchanging scenes that he favored in his later work.Here, as in many of his landscapes of the 1870s, Renoir chose a very unconventional viewpoint. The viewer is seemingly located deep among the foreground bushes, which frame the right margin but also run across the entire foreground, denying us any clear foothold in the space depicted. Nor is there anything especially picturesque or distinctive about the chosen site; wesee parts of the gables and roofs of a few cottages, framed by two hills in the background. Rather, the primary interest of the picture lies in the complex play of brushmarks and colors, though the highlighted roof to the right of center and the crisper margins of the roofs in this area create an unobtrusive pivot that helps to articulate the composition and enhances the sense of space. The paint handling heightens our sense of immersion in the bushes, since the foliage, running across the entire foreground and up the right side of the canvas, is treated in variegated soft dabs of color—greens, light and dark blues, and a few deep reds—with only a few fine linear strokes that suggest the stems of the bushes; smaller and somewhat crisper strokes describe the trees, cottages, and hillside beyond, but nothing is in sharp focus. John House, Renoir in the Barnes Foundation (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), 95.

Specifications of the painting, which has the title "Environs of Berneval"

"Environs of Berneval" was created by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in the year 1879. The more than 140 year old original was painted with the size: Overall: 18 1/8 x 21 7/8 in (46 x 55,5 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the European artist as the medium of the work of art. Today, this artwork is part of the art collection of Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. We are pleased to state that the work of art, which is part of the public domain is supplied with courtesy of Courtesy of the Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Creditline of the artwork: . On top of that, alignment of the digital reproduction is in landscape format and has an image ratio of 1.2 : 1, which implies that the length is 20% longer than the width. Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a male illustrator, painter, sculptor from France, whose artistic style can primarily be classified as Impressionism. The artist was born in the year 1841 in Limoges, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France and passed away at the age of 78 in the year 1919 in Cagnes-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France.

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