A History of European Art

(Steven Felgate) #1
Red Roofs, 1877, oil on canvas, 21 ½ x 25 ¾” (54.5 x 65.6 cm), Musée
d’Orsay, Paris, France.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir:


Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1881, oil on canvas, 4’ 3” x 5’ 8”
(129.5 x 172.7 cm), The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., USA.

Castellani, Renoir: His Life and Works.


Schapiro, Cézanne.



  1. What qualities differentiate plein-air painting from studio work?

  2. Compare Chardin’s Still Life with Plums to Cézanne’s Still-Life with
    Apples and Oranges.


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