Description
Two young women recline together on a grassy bank overlooking the sea, close in the foreground so their straw hats, one gold with an orange ribbon, one white trimmed in orange, fill much of the canvas. Their pale dresses spread across the grass as they lean toward one another, while further back other figures in white stand near the shoreline and small sailboats drift on the water.
Renoir sets the warm skin tones and straw hats against a cool blue grey sea and a soft, hazy sky, with a dark tree at the right framing the whole seaside gathering. The mood is relaxed and sun-warmed, a quiet afternoon spent at the edge of the water.
This seaside scene is available as a hand-painted oil reproduction or an archival canvas print, made to order in the size you choose and true to the proportions of Renoir’s original.
