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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Wheatfield
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French painter, 1841-1919)
Location:
repository: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) Inv. no. (CTB.1961.11)
Location Note:
Paseo del Prado, 8
GPS:
40.416111-3.695
Date:
1879 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Impressionist; Nineteenth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
50.5 cm (height) x 61 cm (width)
Subjects:
agriculture; landscape; en plein air
Description:
This landscape shows a wheat field near Wargemont, in Normandy, where Renoir spent several summers at the estate of his friend and patron, the banker Paul Bérard. Like Renoir’s earlier landscapes, this later picture was painted outdoors, in one or more sessions. Wheatfield was painted at a time when Renoir’s early success had brought him numerous commissions for portraits. By contrast, this landscape is remarkable for its simplicity and its blunt rejection of anecdote and picturesque detail. (Source: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum [website]; https://www.museothy ssen.org/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-RENOIR-TBM-WH-A0 1
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Wheatfield