Landscape (Paysage)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Oil on canvas

Barnes Foundation

This intimate landscape painting exemplifies Renoir's late Impressionist style, rendering the lush terrain of the French countryside—likely near Cagnes-sur-Mer, where the artist settled in his final years—through vibrant, gestural brushwork and a warm, luminous palette. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), a founding figure of French Impressionism, brought the same sensory richness to his landscapes that defined his celebrated figurative works, capturing the play of light across foliage, earth, and sky with freely applied strokes of color. By the 1910s, Renoir was working through severe rheumatoid arthritis, yet his late landscapes grew increasingly bold and expressive, reflecting both the arcadian beauty of the Mediterranean south and a deepening dialogue with the European painterly tradition. The work is held in the collection of the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, which houses the single largest collection of Renoir's paintings in the world.