The Vineyards at Cagnes (Les Vignes à Cagnes)

Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Here, Pierre-Auguste Renoir depicts a woman reading beneath an olive tree on his estate near Cagnes, in the South of France. The property offered panoramic views of the countryside, and he made many such landscapes there, capturing radiant light, lush vegetation, and moments of quiet leisure in colorful, feathery brushstrokes. Although his freely handled technique is quintessentially modern, his composition—foreground trees framing the receding landscape and distant mountain—recalls the orderly compositional structure of seventeenth-century landscapes, with trees framing a distant vista.
Caption
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Limoges, France, 1841–1919, Cagnes–sur–Mer, France. The Vineyards at Cagnes (Les Vignes à Cagnes), 1908. Oil on canvas, 18 1/4 x 21 3/4 in. (46.4 x 55.2 cm) frame: 27 3/8 x 31 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (69.5 x 79.4 x 10.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Colonel and Mrs. Edgar W. Garbisch, 51.219. No known copyright restrictions (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 51.219_PS11.jpg)
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Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
The Vineyards at Cagnes (Les Vignes à Cagnes)
Date
1908
Geography
Place made: France
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
18 1/4 x 21 3/4 in. (46.4 x 55.2 cm) frame: 27 3/8 x 31 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (69.5 x 79.4 x 10.8 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower right: "Renoir."
Credit Line
Gift of Colonel and Mrs. Edgar W. Garbisch
Accession Number
51.219
Rights
No known copyright restrictions
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