20 Works, Today, February 25th. is artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #056
Feb 25, 2021
The Skiff (La Yole), c. 1875
Oil on canvas
71 x 92 cm
National Gallery
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841–3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that “Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau.”…