Bouquet of Chrysanthemums

Auguste Renoir

1881 · Oil on canvas · European Paintings

Renoir felt that he had greater freedom to experiment in still lifes than in figure paintings. "When I paint flowers, I feel free to try out tones and values and worry less about destroying the canvas," he told the writer Georges Rivière. "I would not do this with a figure painting since there I would care about destroying the work."

Artist

Auguste Renoir

Date

1881

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002