Description
A church bell tower rises above a screen of trees in a quiet village, seen across open fields with a golden haystack at the left. The sky is painted pale and soft, and the whole scene is worked with a light, unhurried touch typical of a small landscape made close to home.
This view shows the bell tower of Essoyes, the Champagne village where Renoir’s wife Aline was born and where the family kept a house, returning there most summers. The print keeps the tower’s pale form legible against the surrounding green, since it is the one fixed landmark anchoring an otherwise loosely painted rural scene.



