Description
A woman in a burnt-orange skirt and loose white blouse stands with both arms raised, adjusting the straw hat tied beneath her chin, in the foreground of a sunlit field. Behind her, two more women bend low over the ground among the green and gold grasses, their straw hats visible as they work, with a pale stretch of water or sky opening up behind them.
Renoir dissolves the whole scene into warm, broken strokes of green, gold, and orange, the field and figures merging into a single field of dappled color. The standing woman’s bright skirt anchors the composition against the softer, more distant figures at work.
This painting is available as a hand-painted oil reproduction or an archival canvas print, made to order in sizes true to the original proportions, held at the Barnes Foundation.



