Shop art print and framed art Femme nue dans un paysage by Auguste Renoir

Nude Woman in a Landscape is a painting by the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painted in 1883 and housed in the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris. The work was painted two years after Renoir's trip to Italy. This trip heralded radical changes in his painting, triggered by his reception of the plastically defined forms of Pompeian painting and the classical drawing of Raphael. Combining the memory of Raphael with that of Ingres, whom he had revered since his youth, Renoir introduced into his art a taste for figures that were well defined in terms of volume and confidently drawn. Femme nue dans un paysage is one of the first results of this stylistic change, which culminated in 1887 with the creation of Grandes Baigneuses. Nude Woman in a Landscape is in fact a response to the dictates of the so-called sour style. She is depicted as a woman of opulent form, overflowing with joyful vitality: she lives her physicality to the full, and thus embodies the quintessence of femininity. The work as a whole faithfully follows Renoir's own dictates: "I like paintings that make me want [...] to caress them if they represent [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the impressionism style.

 

« Femme nue dans un paysage » is kept at Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris, France.

 

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