In the Meadow

Auguste Renoir

1888–92 · Oil on canvas · European Paintings

Between 1888 and 1892 Renoir painted a number of works in which the same pair of girls—the blonde wearing a white frock and the brunette a pink one—engage in leisurely pastimes. Here, they pick flowers; the same models appear at the piano in a painting now in the Museum's Lehman Collection (1975.1.201). These intimate genre scenes, which celebrate youthful innocence, found a ready market in the early 1890s.

Artist

Auguste Renoir

Date

1888–92

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

Bequest of Sam A. Lewisohn, 1951