Description
A large flowering chestnut tree, its clusters of orange-red blossom scattered through dense green foliage, dominates this view of a Paris square. Below it a lamppost rises among strolling figures, men in dark suits and hats and women in pale dresses, gathered in small groups or walking across the sunlit open ground.
In the background, glimpsed through and above the branches, stands an ornate turreted building with warm ochre and terracotta walls, its architecture rendered in loose, sketchy touches. Renoir paints the whole scene with rapid, broken brushstrokes, the dappled light through the tree scattering patches of green, gold, and orange across the square and its passersby.
What is offered here is not the original but a faithful reproduction: a hand-painted oil version on canvas, recreated stroke by stroke by a professional painter, or an archival canvas print made with fade-resistant pigment inks, available in a range of sizes to suit any wall.



