# By the Seashore, in Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted this in 1883, aged 42. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> A young woman sits in a wicker chair by the sea, the water and cliffs behind her painted in loose, feathery strokes while her face and clothes are more carefully defined.

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## The work

- Date: 1883
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 36 1/4 x 28 1/2 in. (92.1 x 72.4 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 29.100.125
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Pierre-Auguste Renoir](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/pierre-auguste-renoir), French, 1841–1919

Renoir began as a painter of porcelain in Paris, then studied in Gleyre’s studio, where he met Monet, Sisley and Bazille. In the 1870s he was a central figure of Impressionism, painting Parisians at leisure in dappled light.

12 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Pierre-Auguste Renoir's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-pierre-auguste-renoir?hang=749) (8 works)
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