Description
A young couple sits close together at a small garden table, half-hidden beneath a wall of dense summer foliage. He leans in, his arm resting near her shoulder, gazing at her profile, while she turns outward toward the viewer, composed and a little formal in her plumed straw hat and dark, buttoned jacket. Her striped lavender and cream skirt spills forward across the canvas, its wide dark bands giving the loose brushwork a sense of structure.
On the table between the hat brim and a loosely tied bunch of white wildflowers, Renoir lets his brush turn almost abstract, dabs of green, gold and violet standing in for leaves and light rather than describing them literally. The whole background reads as a thicket of dappled greenery, sunlight breaking through in small flecks of yellow and cream.
This piece is reproduced as a museum-quality giclee print on canvas or fine-art paper, sized to echo the tall, upright feel of the original composition and ready to hang in a room where its dense greens and warm skin tones can breathe.
