Description
A bed of pink and red roses spreads across the foreground of a garden, the blooms built from quick, dabbed strokes against darker foliage. Beyond the flowers, an open lawn stretches back toward a line of trees, with a slim church spire just visible on the horizon at the right.
Painted around 1870, the picture is an early example of Renoir’s plein-air landscape work, the loosely worked rose bed set against a much calmer, more evenly toned lawn and sky behind it. The print keeps the pinks and reds of the roses vivid against that quieter green ground, so the flower bed still reads as the clear foreground even from a distance.



